Usually means: Official order issued by authority.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. decree: Merriam-Webster
  2. decree: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. decree: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. decree: Collins English Dictionary
  5. decree: Vocabulary.com
  6. Decree, decree: Wordnik
  7. decree: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. decree: Wiktionary
  9. decree: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. decree: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. decree: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. decree: Dictionary.com
  13. decree: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. decree: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Decree (Belgium), Decree (band), Decree (canon law), Decree: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Decree: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. decree: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. decree: Rhymezone
  19. decree: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. decree: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. decree: FreeDictionary.org
  22. decree: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. decree: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. decree: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. decree: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. decree: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. decree: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  8. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  9. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  10. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  11. decree: Legal dictionary
  12. decree: Financial dictionary
  13. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. decree: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Decree: Catholic Encyclopedia

(Note: See decreed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An edict or law.
noun:  (law) The judicial decision in a litigated cause rendered by a court of equity.
noun:  (law) The determination of a cause in a court of admiralty or court of probate.
noun:  (religion) A predetermination made by God; an act of providence.
verb:  To command by a decree.

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