Meaning of mandate in English

mandate

noun [ C usually singular ]

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mandate noun [C usually singular] (AUTHORITY)

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the authority given to an elected group of people, such as a government, to perform an action or govern a country:

At the forthcoming elections, the government will be seeking a fresh mandate from the people.

[ + to infinitive ] The president secured the Congressional mandate to go to war by three votes.

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Elections

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mandate noun [C usually singular] (AREA NAME)

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the name of an area of land that has been given to a country by the UN, following or as part of a peace agreement

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Colonization & self-government

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mandate

verb [ T ]

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mandate verb [T] (GIVE PERMISSION)

to give official permission for something to happen:

The UN rush to mandate war totally ruled out any alternatives.

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Allowing and permitting

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mandate verb [T] (ORDER)

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to order someone to do something:

[ + to infinitive ] Our delegates have been mandated to vote against the proposal at the conference.

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Giving orders & commands

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mandate | American Dictionary

mandate

noun [ C ]

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authority to act in a particular way given to a government or a person, esp. as a result of a vote or ruling:

[ + to infinitive ] The president secured a congressional mandate to send troops to Bosnia.

mandate

verb [ T ]

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to make something necessary, esp. as a rule:

The law mandated a minimum six-year sentence for violent crimes.

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mandate | Business English

mandate

noun

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[ C, usually singular, or U ]

an official order or requirement to do something:

mandate to do sth Norad's mandate is to promote effective management of funds for development assistance.

The region is already under federal mandate to reduce air pollution.

[ C, usually singular, or U ] GOVERNMENT

official permission or the right to do something, usually given as the result of a vote:

mandate to do sth The government claimed that it had a mandate to raise taxes.

The CEO disputed that the disposal of the 10.5 million shares was based on the shareholder mandate.

[ C ] GOVERNMENT

the period of time that a government or an elected person is allowed to remain in power:

She has just another two months in office before her mandate comes to an end.

[ C ] BANKING

bank mandate

mandate

verb [ T ]

/ˈmændeɪt/ us

to officially require someone to do something, or something to happen:

mandate sb to do sth Lawmakers mandated them to change the rules after questions about the safety of the procedure arose.

mandate that The government should have mandated that these figures be made public.

In Ohio, every bridge is mandated to be inspected annually.

to give official permission for someone to do something, or for something to happen:

mandate sb to do sth The department was mandated to proceed with the project.

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Examples of mandate

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Both, in the first instance, had essentially macroeconomic mandates - stability and growth respectively.

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The new law stipulates that 60 per cent of all constitutionally mandated state and municipal funding must be allocated to primary education.

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The most plausible explanation for the constitutional concern with rules is that most states of affairs are constitutionally optional-neither forbidden nor mandated.

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If it is mandated that all produce be sold on market day, produce may be sold at a less-than-desirable price.

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The phonologist and the phonetician have overlapping mandates inasmuch as each is charged with the description and explanation of speech production and perception.

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The constantly emerging new evidence and new medications mandates a level of dynamism in formularies that may be difficult to maintain.

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They might have to operate in the interstices of institutional guidelines and testing mandates.

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Antiemetic prophylaxis was recommended during daily temozolomide exposure, and mandated during the conventional 5-day treatment.

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However, his thesis that the mandates ' contributed to an evolution in the culture of colonialism ' in general is rather more difficult to sustain.

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On the other hand, the small number of patients in this study population mandates cautious interpretation of the results.

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The horse also has a very stiff chest wall that limits the thoracic displacement to ventilation during exercise86 and mandates a proportionally greater diaphragmatic displacement.

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Thus, the actual oath of office sworn by the new president is a significant constitutionally mandated gateway.

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With this law, expensive devices were mandated to be subject to hospital planning.

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Several agencies mentioned in the study now have different tasks and mandates and accordingly have different denominations.

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In the paper, we argue that the fact that the government mandates a pension scheme that is not fully funded automatically creates an implicit liability.

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Collocations with mandate

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clear mandate

Accountability is ensured by giving a clear mandate to the pension boards and then monitoring them effectively.

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dual mandate

Similarly, it may be useful to disaggregate the classical dual mandate of the ombudsman: to enhance parliamentary scrutiny over the executive, and to exercise judicial control over the public bureaucracy.

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electoral mandate

Perhaps what discredited the system more was the implementation of market reforms for which there was no electoral mandate and which aggravated social tensions.

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