mandate

Pronunciation: /ˈmændeɪ̯t/

The English word “mandate” has 9 meanings listed here.

noun

An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.
The order or authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.
A period during which a government is in power.
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.

verb

To (officially) require someone to do something or act in a certain way, to give them the authority to do so; to command.
To make mandatory.
To administer or assign a territory to a nation under a mandate.
To repeat, rehearse sermons or speeches aloud.

Etymology

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…

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