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Mandate

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Noun

1. authorisation, authorization, mandate

a document giving an official instruction or command

2. mandate, mandatory

a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves

3. mandate

the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory

Verb

4. mandate

assign under a mandate

Example Sentences:
'mandate a colony'

5. mandate

make mandatory

Example Sentences:
'the new director of the school board mandated regular tests'

6. mandate

assign authority to

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Mandate

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noun (ˈmændeɪt , -dɪt)
1. 
an official or authoritative instruction or command
2. politics
the support or commission given to a government and its policies or an elected representative and his or her policies through an electoral victory
3. Also called: mandated territory (often capital)
(formerly) any of the territories under the trusteeship of the League of Nations administered by one of its member states
4. 
a. Roman law
a contract by which one person commissions another to act for him or her gratuitously and the other accepts the commission
b. contract law
a contract of bailment under which the party entrusted with goods undertakes to perform gratuitously some service in respect of such goods
c. Scots law
a contract by which a person is engaged to act in the management of the affairs of another
verb (ˈmændeɪt ) (transitive)
5. international law
to assign (territory) to a nation under a mandate
6. 
to delegate authority to
7. obsolete
to give a command to

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Mandate

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noun
1. 
an authoritative order or command, esp. a written one
2.  Obsolete
a. 
a commission from the League of Nations to a country to administer some region, colony, etc.
see also trusteeship (sense 2)
b. 
the area so administered
see also trust territory
3. 
the wishes of constituents expressed to a representative, legislature, etc., as through an election and regarded as an order
4.  Law
a. 
an order from a higher court or official to a lower one: a mandate on remission is a mandate from an appellate court to the lower court, communicating its decision in a case appealed
b. 
in English law, a bailment of personal property with no consideration
c. 
in Roman law, a commission or contract by which a person undertakes to do something for another, without recompense but with indemnity against loss
d. 
any contract of agency
verb transitiveWord forms: ˈmanˌdated or ˈmanˌdating
5. 
to assign (a region, etc.) as a mandate
6. 
to require as by law; make mandatory

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Mandate

see synonyms of mandate
n.
1. An authoritative command or instruction.
2. A command or authorization given by a political electorate to the winner of an election.
3.
a. A commission from the League of Nations authorizing a member nation to administer a territory.
b. A region under such administration.
4. Law The specific directive issued by a reviewing court to a lower court, as in requiring the lower court to enter a new judgment or to conduct further proceedings consistent with the reviewing court's ruling.
tr.v. man·dat·ed, man·dat·ing, man·dates
1. To assign (a colony or territory) to a specified nation under a mandate of the League of Nations.
2. To make mandatory, as by law; decree or require: mandated desegregation of public schools.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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