mandated

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of mandate.

   The board mandated annual audits for all member organizations.

   Helmets were mandated for every rider on the course.

   Note

   One spelling carries two object patterns of mandate. A thing can be mandated (the board mandated audits). A person or body can also be mandated to act, which means being given the authority along with the order: the commission was mandated to investigate. In the passive, a by-phrase names the authority, as in precautions mandated by a judge. The territorial sense survives in mandated territory, meaning land assigned to a nation under a mandate.

2. 2
   adjective

   Required or made compulsory by an official order, rule, or law.

   Companies struggled to meet the newly mandated emissions limits.

   The court reviewed whether the mandated disclosures were sufficient.

   Similarmandatory, compulsory, required, obligatory, prescribed

   Oppositeoptional, voluntary

   Note

   An adjective of yes or no: a disclosure is mandated or it is not, so there is no "more mandated" or "most mandated." It usually stands before its noun, as in mandated limits, mandated disclosures, mandated testing. After a form of be, it reads instead as the passive verb, especially once a by-phrase names who did the requiring.

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