Meaning

5 senses
  1. An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.

    Mandat, Ermächtigung, Legitimation

    манда́тmandát, полномо́чиеpolnomóčije, поруче́ниеporučénije

    манда́тmandát, манда́тmandát

    a document giving an official instruction or command

  2. The order or authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.

  3. (Canada)A period during which a government is in power.

  4. (historical)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.

    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

  5. 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.

    (historical)Such a territory.

Examples

13 sentences
  1. The poverty is state-mandated eugenics.

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  2. Company regulations mandate that workers use protective eyewear.

    deDie Betriebsordnung schreibt den Arbeitern das Tragen von Sicherheitsbrillen vor.

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  3. Company regulations mandate that workers wear safety glasses.

    deDie Betriebsordnung schreibt den Arbeitern das Tragen von Sicherheitsbrillen vor.

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  4. People at my school are no longer mandated to wear masks.

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  5. State law mandates that all public schools post information about their curricula online.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
official command:
Русский
By meaning 1
official command:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
official command:
the authority to do something or to act:

Origin

First attested in 1521; borrowed from Latin mandātum (“a charge, order, command, commissio

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”).

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Forms

plural: mandates
Singularmandate
Pluralmandates

regular

Synonyms

16 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a document giving an official instruction or command:authorizationauthorisation
  • 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:mandatory

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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