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/ˈmænˌdeɪt/
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NOUN
- 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
- the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory
- a document giving an official instruction or command
VERB
-
assign under a mandate
mandate a colony -
make mandatory
the new director of the school board mandated regular tests - assign authority to
How To Use mandate In A Sentence
- Yet he wrote a good deal about empire and coined the term "dual mandate" to describe British policy. Now That The Sun Has Set
- Governments now claim to have a mandate for a battery of items in the manifesto, however picayune each may be.
- We will therefore go back to the electorate to renew our mandate with confidence.
- Weight concerns mandated that the cylinder heads and crankcase are both made of cast aluminum.
- A senate committee has killed a bill that would have ended Virginia's four-year-old mandate that girls receive the vaccine that protects against the human papillomavirus before enrolling in the sixth grade. Senate panel kills bill to end Virginia's HPV vaccine mandate
- Lebanon became a French mandate after World War I.
- In foreign policy, he has Obama's specific mandate to monitor the wind-down of the American troop involvement in Iraq and to baby-sit its tortuous journey to political stability. Jules Witcover: Obama's Sidekick Joe Biden: Understanding The Vice President
- The 40-member steering committee was mandated to formulate agreements on all outstanding issues and to draft legislation to formalize any agreements.
- Its practice of paying the men their cash wages only once a month—a violation of Nevada law, which mandated semimonthly pay envelopes—guaranteed that the demand for scrip would remain robust and thus that the company store would continue to do “exceptionally good business with very gratifying profits,” as the Big Six board was informed that summer. Colossus
- Such a renouncement would not trigger the Electoral Act and would not require a by-election to allow the electorate to review the MP's mandate to represent him or her.