to command respect
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4.9
- phrasal verb
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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.
- He doesn't command respect in his own with his own voters, let alone overseas.
- Because right now Eddie commands respect of that dressing room and and there's nobody there in in that team who has achieved a great deal yet.
Examples
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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.
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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.
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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
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5.2
To deserve and get respect or a high price
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2.6
To make someone admire or respect you
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
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'.