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direction
An authoritative order or command:
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  1. An authoritative order or command:
  2. The course along which a person or thing is moving or must move to reach a destination:
  3. The management, supervision, or guidance of a group or operation:
demand
An urgent requirement or need:
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  1. An urgent requirement or need:
  2. (Economics) The desire for goods or services in an economy, measured as the amount people are ready to buy at a given price:
  3. A request that some act be done or payment made in accordance with a legal requirement.
charge
The departure from electrical neutrality at a point, or in a region, as by the accumulation, or deficit, of electrical particles: more electrons than normal produce a negative charge; fewer, a positive charge
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  1. The departure from electrical neutrality at a point, or in a region, as by the accumulation, or deficit, of electrical particles: more electrons than normal produce a negative charge; fewer, a positive charge
  2. The command to attack:
  3. A claim of wrongdoing; an accusation:
summons
A written notice for a person to appear before a court under penalty of having a judgment entered against that person for failing to appear; a written notice to a person to appear for jury duty; a written notice to appear in court to testify as a witness in a case. Synonymous with subpoena. A written notice for a person to appear before a court under penalty of having a judgment entered against that person for failing to appear; a written notice to a person to appear for jury duty; a written notice to appear in court to testify as a witness in a case. Synonymous with subpoena.
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  1. A written notice for a person to appear before a court under penalty of having a judgment entered against that person for failing to appear; a written notice to a person to appear for jury duty; a written notice to appear in court to testify as a witness in a case. Synonymous with subpoena. A written notice for a person to appear before a court under penalty of having a judgment entered against that person for failing to appear; a written notice to a person to appear for jury duty; a written notice to appear in court to testify as a witness in a case. Synonymous with subpoena.
  2. A call by an authority to appear, come, or do something.
  3. A call, command, knock, or other signal that summons
call
A sound or an instrument made to imitate such a cry, used as a lure:
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  1. A sound or an instrument made to imitate such a cry, used as a lure:
  2. Need or occasion:
  3. Roll call
request
An act of asking for something.
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  1. An act of asking for something.
  2. The state of being asked for or wanted; demand
  3. Something asked for:
behest
An authoritative command.
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  1. An authoritative command.
  2. An urgent request:
  3. An order, command, or request
charge
Expense; cost:
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  1. Expense; cost:
  2. Instruction or command, esp. instruction in points of law given by a judge to a jury
  3. An order, command, or injunction.
command
The post where the person in command is stationed
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  1. The post where the person in command is stationed
  2. (Comput.) A request entered by means of a keyboard, mouse, etc. to have a particular function performed
  3. An order; direction; mandate
commandment
The act of commanding; exercise of authority.
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  1. The act of commanding; exercise of authority.
  2. Something that must be obeyed; a command or edict.
  3. An authoritative command or order; mandate; precept; specif., any of the Ten Commandments
dictate
An authoritative command
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  1. An authoritative command
  2. A guiding principle:
  3. A guiding principle or requirement
direction
(Music) A word, phrase, or sign showing how a note, passage, etc. is to be played
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  1. (Music) A word, phrase, or sign showing how a note, passage, etc. is to be played
  2. The management, supervision, or guidance of a group or operation:
  3. An authoritative order or command:
directive
An order or instruction, especially one issued by an authority.
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  1. An order or instruction, especially one issued by an authority.
  2. A general instruction or order issued authoritatively
injunction
(Law) A court order requiring a party to refrain from doing a particular act or to do a particular act.
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  1. (Law) A court order requiring a party to refrain from doing a particular act or to do a particular act.
  2. A writ or order from a court prohibiting a person or group from carrying out a given action, or ordering a given action to be done
  3. That which is enjoined; an order; a mandate; a decree; a command; a precept; a direction.
instruction
Imparted knowledge:
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  1. Imparted knowledge:
  2. An authoritative direction to be obeyed; an order:
  3. A command or order
mandate
An authoritative order or command, esp. a written one
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  1. An authoritative order or command, esp. a written one
  2. A court’s order directing a lower court or judicial officer to perform a particular action.
  3. The wishes of constituents expressed to a representative, legislature, etc., as through an election and regarded as an order
order
A style of building:
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  1. A style of building:
  2. A command, direction, or instruction, usually backed by authority
  3. A sequence or arrangement of successive things:
word
Used euphemistically in combination with the initial letter of a term that is considered offensive or taboo or that one does not want to utter:
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  1. Used euphemistically in combination with the initial letter of a term that is considered offensive or taboo or that one does not want to utter:
  2. An assurance or promise; sworn intention:
  3. A command or direction; an order:
Find another word for bidding. In this page you can discover 22 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for bidding, like: direction, demand, charge, summons, call, request, command, invitation, behest, charge and command.

Sentence Examples

  • A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.

  • He gave and lent enormous sums to successive popes, and at the bidding of Clement XI.

  • In 35 he dispersed a number of Samaritans, who had assembled near Mt Gerizim at the bidding of an impostor, in order to see the temple vessels buried there by Moses.

  • After bidding their family farewell they were carried to the sepulchral cave, nothing but a bowl of milk being left them.

  • These were the men who, a little later, at the bidding of their "benefactors," dissolved one inconvenient diet after another; for it is a significant fact that during the reigns of the two Augustuses every diet was dissolved in this way by the hirelings of some great lord or, still worse, of some foreign potentate.

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