mandate

Pluralmandates

Formsmandates, mandating, mandated

1. 1
   nouncountable

   An official order or instruction from someone in power.

   Like a rule from the school principal that everyone must follow.

   The city issued a mandate that all stores close by midnight.

   Under the new mandate, every driver must pass an eye test.

   Similarorder, command, obligation

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2. 2
   nouncountable

   The power that voters give a politician to carry out plans.

   Like when your class votes for your plan, so everyone agrees you should lead it.

   After winning by a large margin, the president claimed a mandate for change.

   The new mayor said the voters gave her a clear mandate to fix the roads.

   Similarauthority, warrant

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3. 3
   verbtransitive

   To make something a rule that people must follow.

   Many states mandate seat belts for all passengers.

   The airline mandated face coverings on every flight.

   Similarrequire, impose, decree, prescribe, stipulate

   Oppositeprohibit, ban, forbid

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4. 4
   verbtransitive

   To officially order a person or group to do something.

   City rules mandate landlords to fix heating problems quickly.

   The judge mandated the company to clean up the river.

   Similarrequire, oblige, order, direct, compel

   Oppositeforbid, prohibit

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5. 5
   nounCanadacountable

   The time when a government holds power, from one election to the next.

   Like the school year when one student council is in charge.

   The government built two new hospitals during its first mandate.

   Her party lost support near the end of its four-year mandate.

   Similarterm, tenure

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6. 6
   nounhistoricalcountable

   An order after World War I that let one country govern land taken from a defeated country.

   Britain received a mandate to govern Palestine after the war.

   The mandate gave France control of Syria and Lebanon.

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7. 7
   nounhistoricalcountable

   A piece of land governed by one country for the League of Nations after World War I.

   Palestine was a British mandate between the two world wars.

   Many new people moved to the mandate during the 1920s.

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8. 8
   verbtransitive

   To place a territory under a country's care by order of an international body.

   The winners of the war chose to mandate Germany's old colonies to other countries.

   Palestine was mandated to Britain in 1922.

   Similarassign, entrust

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9. 9
   nouncolloquial

   Alternative form of man date. It is a casual, joking way to talk about a date between two men.

   Jake and his friend went on a mandate to the new burger place.

   Their weekly mandate is just coffee and talking about work.

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10. 10
    verbdialectalScotlandtransitive

    To practice a sermon or speech by saying it out loud.

    Young preachers mandate their sermons aloud the night before church.

    He mandated his speech twice until he knew every line.

    Similarrehearse, recite

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