mandate
mandate
Definition
man·date (man′dāt′)
noun
- an authoritative order or command, esp. a written one
- Historical
- a commission from the League of Nations to a country to administer some region, colony, etc.
- the area so administered
- the wishes of constituents expressed to a representative, legislature, etc., as through an election and regarded as an order
- Law
- an order from a higher court or official to a lower one: a mandate on remission is a mandate from an appellate court to the lower court, communicating its decision in a case appealed
- in English law, a bailment of personal property with no consideration
- in Roman law, a commission or contract by which a person undertakes to do something for another, without recompense but with indemnity against loss
- any contract of agency
Etymology: L mandatum, neut. pp. of mandare, lit., to put into one's hand, command, entrust < manus, a hand + pp. of dare, to give: see manual & date
transitive verb -·dat′ed, -·dat′·ing
- to assign (a region, etc.) as a mandate
- to require as by law; make mandatory
man·da′·tor noun
mandate
Synonyms
mandate Finance Definition
A
declaration that indicates that an investment banker has won the opportunity to
do debt or equity underwriting for a corporation or to advise it on merger
discussions
mandate
Law Definition
n
- The voters show of support, typically greater than a simple majority, for a particular political candidate or party.
- A courts order directing a lower court or judicial officer to perform a particular action.
mandate
Usage Examples
Object
- self-archiving: Let me count the ways: ( 1 ) Institutions can mandate self-archiving, disciplines cannot.
Converse of object
- negotiate: Russia and China's proposal is that an Ad Hoc Committee in the CD would first have a research and not a negotiating mandate.
- fulfill: Apart from our travel budgets, we have no budgets of our own to fulfill the mandates we were elected on.
- fulfill: How far has the Department come in fulfilling the mandate of Congress to establish this new Department?
Adjective modifier
- self-archiving: So it's time to do something concrete to accelerate things: Self-archiving mandates have already been demonstrated to do just that.
- congressional: It's also helping them meet a congressional mandate to the military to reduce their fuel use by 20 percent.
- democratic: That is the democratic mandate of several second Chambers in Europe.
- un: The battle was focusing on whether the US would require a fresh UN mandate to carry out an attack.
- unfunded: The Senate rejected a similar amendment during floor debate, at least in part to avoid creating a new unfunded mandate.
- electoral: We will not accept this attack on our electoral mandate.
Adjective complement
- poverty-related: And men aged to in each model federally mandated poverty-related.
Modifying Another Word
- federally: Choose plans where federally mandated poverty-related length of time paying a large.
- congressionally: This has been going on since May, 2002 -- congressionally mandated changes in the clearance procedures.
Noun used with modifier
- debit: By Direct Debit - click on the links in the box at the right to access the direct debit mandate form.
- parity: Parity mandates that the distribution of island texas virginia.
- dividend: How do I change or add a dividend mandate?
Possessives
- IAEA: On the other, the IAEA's mandate promotes the dangerous myth of peaceful nuclear power.
Preposition: in
- pursuance: Mandate in pursuance to the sh of Cumberland ( CChR, 122657, p. 288 ).
Preposition: from
- electorate: Cllr Haigh said she would feel the need of a clear majority mandate from the electorate.
Preposition: for
- medicaid: Cause is unclear leave public assistance programs quot american mandated for medicaid.
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