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Definition of 'mandate'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) mandate
a command or authorization to act in a particular way given by the electorate to its representative.

2.  mandate
any authoritative order or command:
a royal mandate.

3.  mandate
(in the League of Nations) a commission given to a nation to administer the government and affairs of a former Turkish territory or German colony.

4.  mandate
such a territory or colony.

5.  mandate
a command from a superior court or official to a lower one.

6. (v.t.) mandate
to authorize or decree (a particular action).

7.  mandate
to make mandatory.

8.  mandate
to consign (a territory) under a mandate.

Etymology: (1540–50; < L mandātum, from mandāre to give as a commission, lit., to hand over)

Definition of 'mandate'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) mandate, authorization, authorisation
a document giving an official instruction or command

2. (noun) 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. (verb) mandate
the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory

4. (verb) mandate
assign under a mandate
"mandate a colony"

5. (verb) mandate
make mandatory
"the new director of the school board mandated regular tests"

6. (verb) mandate
assign authority to

Definition of 'mandate'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) mandate
an official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept

2. (noun) mandate
a rescript of the pope, commanding an ordinary collator to put the person therein named in possession of the first vacant benefice in his collation

3. (noun) mandate
a contract by which one employs another to manage any business for him. By the Roman law, it must have been gratuitous

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