Usually means: Commands that must be followed.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. imperatives: Merriam-Webster
  2. imperatives: Collins English Dictionary
  3. imperatives: Vocabulary.com
  4. Imperatives, imperatives: Wordnik
  5. imperatives: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. imperatives: Wiktionary
  7. imperatives: Dictionary.com
  8. imperatives: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. imperatives: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Imperatives: Glossary of English Grammar Terms

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. imperatives: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. imperatives: Encyclopedia

(Note: See imperative as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (imperative)

adjective:  Essential; crucial; extremely important.
adjective:  (grammar) Of, or relating to the imperative mood.
adjective:  (computing theory) Having semantics that incorporates mutable variables.
adjective:  Expressing a command; authoritatively or absolutely directive.
noun:  (uncountable, grammar) The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare infinitive.
noun:  (countable, grammar) A verb in the imperative mood.
noun:  (countable) An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.
▸ Also see imperative


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