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to command respect

to command respect

4 4.9
To get respect and authority from other people because of your behavior or position
  • phrasal verb
translation icon : inspirar respeto
  • Most importantly, it will most definitely help you command respect in your quest for a technical co-founder.

He doesn't command respect in his own with his own voters, let alone overseas.

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Examples

  • Another approach is to make the worker part of a larger healthcare team with a role that commands respect.

    Academic text (2001)
  • In short, a leader possessed characteristics that commanded respect from his family and from the larger community within which he represented his extended family.

    Academic text (2004)
  • If you cannot command respect by your conduct, you cannot demand respect by law.

    Blog text (21)
  • What she did commands respect.

  • As a group, we could command respect and attention, and our concerns would not be so easily ignored.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Big difference between someone who commands respect versus someone who demands it.

  • Apparently, Romney is the man who commands respect from the Iranians.

    Blog text (18)
  • Various websites convey the impression that his is a voice that commands respect in the Coptic community.

    Blog text (34)
  • Yet both surviving children expressed pride in Carolina as a strong mother and a dignified human being who commanded respect.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Soft-spoken though he may be, Foster Phillips has a presence that commands respect.

Synonyms

to command
vsto command respect
48 5.2

To deserve and get respect or a high price

focuses on earning admiration plus real authority through behavior or position
to impress someone
vsto command respect
3 2.6

To make someone admire or respect you

builds real authority and earned status through behavior or position

Antonyms

119 3.9

Ignore something or someone on purpose

Surface Forms

command respect infinitive
commanded respect past participle
commanding respect present participle
commands respect third person singular

Morphology

command + respect

The sense 'to earn admiration or authority' is directly derivable from combining 'command' (to warrant, receive, or cause) with 'respect' (admiration). This verb+noun compositional causative pattern is common and readily inferable by a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.

Etymology

The phrase command respect comes from a simple picture: a leader gives orders and people listen. If people obey a leader's command, they show respect, so to command respect means to 'be admired and obeyed'.