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Mandate

//ˈmændeɪt// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.

    "Enactive. Expositive. / Art. 57. XIII 2. The Registrative, or say Recordative: exercised, by the arrangements and operations, by which, in conformity to corresponding ordinances and mandates, the accounts, given at different periods by the exercise of the statistic function, are kept in contiguity, and in a regular series, for the purpose of reference and comparison."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of man date: a date between two men. alt-of, alternative, uncommon

    "Moss: Oh, he's long gone, although Roy's got a mandate with him. Roy: It is not a mandate. I am not a man-woman. We are not married. I am not your wife!"

  3. 3
    the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory wordnet
  4. 4
    The order or authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.

    "John Tyler and James K. Polk both regarded the election results as a mandate for the annexation of Texas."

  5. 5
    a document giving an official instruction or command wordnet
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  1. 6
    A period during which a government is in power. Canada

    "Throughout his last mandate, from 1980 to 1984, Mr. Trudeau insisted that we see ourselves solely as Canadians, that we set aside the historic compromises that underlie Canada as a federation."

  2. 7
    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 wordnet
  3. 8
    An order by the League of Nations to a member nation to establish a government responsible for a conquered territory, as the colonies of Germany after World War I. historical
  4. 9
    An order by the League of Nations to a member nation to establish a government responsible for a conquered territory, as the colonies of Germany after World War I.; Such a territory. historical
Verb
  1. 1
    To (officially) require someone to do something or act in a certain way, to give them the authority to do so; to command.

    "A delegate conference was called, and garages invited to mandate their representatives to vote for or against continuance."

  2. 2
    assign authority to wordnet
  3. 3
    To make mandatory.

    "Federal law mandates that at least one nongroup insurer in your state must provide coverage to everyone, regardless of health issues."

  4. 4
    make mandatory wordnet
  5. 5
    To administer or assign a territory to a nation under a mandate.
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  1. 6
    assign under a mandate wordnet
  2. 7
    To repeat, rehearse sermons or speeches aloud. Scotland, especially

    "After I have mandated my exercices."

Etymology

Etymology 1

First attested in 1521; borrowed from Latin mandātum (“a charge, order, command, commission, injunction”), substantivized from the neuter forms of mandātus, perfect passive participle of mandō (“to commit to one's charge, order, command, commission, literally to put into one's hands”) (see -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from manus (“hand”) + -dere (“to put”). Sense 3 in Canadian English is likely a semantic loan from French mandat.

Etymology 2

First attested in 1623; partly directly borrowed from Latin mandātus (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more), partly from the above noun by metanalysis.

Etymology 3

From man + date.

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