take dictation

phrase

: to write down the words that someone says so that they can be used in a letter, report, etc.

Her secretary's very good at taking dictation.

Examples of take dictation in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This device was first introduced in 1946 and was primarily used in offices to take dictation. — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 12 Feb. 2026

The machine made no mistakes and could take dictation as fast as the speaker could articulate. — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Jan. 2026

Milch arrived, told someone to take dictation, and delivered a stream-of-consciousness speech that, legend has it, Franz(*) performed word-for-word only minutes later. — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2023

Moran went on to do much more than take dictation as the industrious author’s fading eyesight, Parkinson’s and an emergency surgery affected her ability to work and speak in the late 1980s. — Lisa Amand, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Mar. 2022

Rhymes for take dictation

• abbreviation
• abomination
• acceleration
• accentuation
• accommodation
• accreditation
• acculturation
• accumulation
• acetylation
• adjudication
• administration
• adulteration