Usually means: Speaking words for someone to write.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. dictation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dictation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dictation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dictation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dictation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dictation, dictation: Wordnik
  7. dictation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dictation: Wiktionary
  9. dictation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dictation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dictation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dictation, dictation: Dictionary.com
  13. dictation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Dictation (exercise), Dictation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Dictation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. dictation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. dictation: Rhymezone
  18. dictation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. dictation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. dictation: Free Dictionary
  21. dictation: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. dictation: Mnemonic Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dictation (exercise), dictation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dictation: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable, uncountable) Dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words.
noun:  (countable, uncountable) An activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down.
noun:  (countable) The act of ordering or commanding.
noun:  (uncountable) Orders given in an overbearing manner.

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