consent decree
decree
verb[ T ]
uk /dɪˈkriː/us
LAW
to make a judgment in a court of law:
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling decreed that apparel manufacturers - not the retailers themselves - could control the minimum sale price of products.
to officially state that something will happen:
Several countries have lured back untaxed assets held abroad by decreeing an amnesty for tax evasion.

Examples of decree

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The repeated resort to the so-called decrees of ' urgency and need ' represent a clear invasion of legislative prerogatives by the executive.
Both decrees were originally designed as stop gap measures pending constitutional amendments and secondary legislation to regulate the various services.
A series of decrees and circulars passed in the colony in 1901 outlined the proper methods to prepare rubber for circulation and sale.
The influence and status of regulatory decrees depended upon managed publicity.
Guilds and parishes also valued selective publicity, reciting decrees or drawing on the expertise of parishioners and workmen.
Attention is drawn to the need to distinguish between the monetary policy and their financial policy in the anti-shroffing decrees issued by the authorities.
The king decrees that the father be freed from prison if and only if she returns to court both naked and not naked.
Such decrees may be developed at the federal and/or sub-federal level.
In his first five months in office, he issued more emergency decrees (thirty) than had all previous presidents combined.
After this loss of honour (for such was the decree's real significance), conservative nobles retreated into passivity or departed altogether.
A state of siege was decreed in the states controlled by rebels, rapidly extended to the entire country.
Individual convictions, no matter how per vasively they may be harbored, are not the products of formal enactments or authoritative decrees.
The king could return decrees to the council, with further steps kept ambiguous.
They stressed the role of the social-milieu and human-will view that entered the 1882 law decreeing the instruction of morale laque in primary schools.
The provincial government decreed that the city would be provided with the very latest innovations of art and science.
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Collocations withdecree

decree

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divorce decree
It would be irrational to suppose that a support obligation would become dischargeable just because it had not been expressly foreseen in a separation agreement or divorcedecree.
executive decree
Due to the lack of congressional support, many of the laws were passed by executivedecree.
government decree
A governmentdecree reinstated industrial promotion tax subsidies to companies that had received them before 1989, and refunded the taxes they had paid since 1993.
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