mandate
IPA: mˈændeɪt
noun
- An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.
- (politics) The order or authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.
- (Canada) A period during which a government is in power.
- (historical) 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) Such a territory.
- (uncommon) Alternative form of man date: a date between two men. [(colloquial) A platonic outing by two (typically straight) men, often in settings that would otherwise be reserved for romantic encounters.]
verb
- To authorize.
- To make mandatory.
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Examples of "mandate" in Sentences
- The mandate of the foundation is unclear.
- The school mandates freshmen to take the course.
- The mandate of the last Parliament expired in 2006.
- Extension is one of the three mandates of the university.
- Failure to carry out this mandate will redound to misery.
- For the most part, the mandate of the ADIPs is concluding.
- It is also fully mandate and envisages in the constitution.
- His mandate was to determine the scope of alcoholism in Ontario.
- The mandate of the assembly was created by the of the Ontario legislature.
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 mandated desegregation in public accommodations.
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