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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
diktat
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Lithuania refused to give in to the diktat from Moscow.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dialogue and accord have been translated into government by diktat.
▪ How can that be so when today's diktat is a contemptuous dismissal of the community's united protest?
▪ The Government govern not by consent or even by diktat but by spite - spite against the mining communities.
▪ The will to enforce its diktat is present.
▪ They are a diktat, apparently government-backed.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
diktat

1933, from German Diktat "dictate."

Wiktionary
diktat

n. 1 a harsh penalty or settlement imposed upon a defeated party by the victor 2 a dogmatic decree, especially issued by one who rules without popular consent

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Diktat

A diktat is a statute, harsh penalty or settlement imposed upon a defeated party by the victor, or a dogmatic decree. The term has acquired a pejorative sense, to describe a set of rules dictated by a foreign power or an unpopular local power. The phrases "To impose its values" or "give orders" can be synonymous with giving a diktat.

Usage examples of "diktat".

Stefano was an intelligent man, not stubborn, simply single-minded in his work, which was, she now recalled, centered around Tertullian, the early Christian theologian and polemicist whose famous diktat he had just quoted.

Sabium said, "For sharing with all of Helmand what you have learned, I reward you with three diktats of refined gold and the rank of shaushludlul.

Morris sah ihr nach, dann warf er einen Blick hinüber zu Ellis, der sie während des Diktats nicht aus den Augen gelassen hatte.

Das Diktat wurde später von einer Sekretärin abgeschrieben und in Bensons Krankenakte abgeheftet.

Heir - apparent Daclif Gallamby becomes the new Diktat, though he is little more than just a figurehead for a puppet government.