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noun
An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: compulsion, obligation, authority, sanction, allowance, authorization, clearance, consent, leave, license, mandate, permission, permit, warrant
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noun
The order or authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: government, politics
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noun
A period during which a government is in power.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
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.
Such a territory.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
Alternative form of man date: a date between two men.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, uncommon
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verb
To (officially) require someone to do something or act in a certain way, to give them the authority to do so; to command.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To make mandatory.
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verb
To administer or assign a territory to a nation under a mandate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To repeat, rehearse sermons or speeches aloud.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, especially
Topics: Christianity
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noun
the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: commission, commissioning
noun
a document giving an official instruction or command
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: authorization, authorisation
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Broader terms: legal document, legal instrument, official document, instrument
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: mandatory
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Broader terms: district, territory, territorial dominion, dominion
Narrower terms: Palestine
verb
assign authority to
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: delegate, designate, depute, assign
verb
make mandatory
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: order, prescribe, dictate
verb
assign under a mandate
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: delegate, designate, depute, assign
History
First attested in 1521; borrowed from Latin mandātum (“a charge, order, command, commission, injunction”), substantivized from the neuter forms of mandātus, perfect passive participle of mandō (“to commit to one's charge, order, command, commission, literally to put into one's hands”) (see -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from manus (“hand”) + -dere (“to put”). Sense 3 in Canadian English is likely a semantic loan from French mandat.
From man + date.
First attested in 1623; partly directly borrowed from Latin mandātus (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more), partly from the above noun by metanalysis.
Across languages
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