diktat

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A dogmatic decree or command, especially issued by one who rules without popular consent.

   “Whatever the pressures that have invoked the Minister's diktat, the outcome is Gilbertian.”

   “Today, regional diktat is now supplemented (though not wholly replaced) by other means of recruiting elites.”

   “It should be noted that Saddam's power was held up by fear and diktat.”

   “Trump—according not to the paranoid fears of his opponents, but his own professed desires—would have the government’s law enforcement institutions act as political weapons, aimed by his diktat.”

   “He added that “the issues are still the same” and that Russian President Putin “still wishes to impose his diktat on Ukraine.””

2. (countable, dated, uncountable)A harsh penalty or settlement imposed upon a defeated party by the victor.

   “Even Hitler's success in capturing the allegiance of the masses was due far more to this programmes of social reform than to his denunciations of the Diktats of Versailles or his belief in an expansionist future for Germany.”