rule

/ruːl/ verb [I, T]

Translation

DECIDE › to make an official legal decision

karar vermek, hüküm vermek

[+ (that)] The judge ruled that it was wrong for a 16-year-old girl to be held in an adult prison.692238

CONTROL › to be in control of somewhere, usually a country

yönetmek, hüküm sürmek, idare etmek

[often passive] They were ruled for many years by a dictator. the ruling party → See also rule the roost676

rule sb/sth out phrasal verb

› to decide that something or someone is not suitable for a particular purpose, or to decide that something is impossible

ihtimalini ortadan kaldırmak, izin vermemek, hesaba katmamak, hariç tutmak, bertaraf etmek

The police have not ruled him out as a suspect.1185

(Definition of rule verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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