mandate
English
Etymology
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Noun is borrowed from Latin mandātum (“a charge, order, command, commission, injunction”), neut of. mandātus, past participle of mandāre (“to commit to one's charge, order, command, commission, literally to put into one's hands”), from manus (“hand”) + dare (“to put”). Compare command, commend, demand, remand.
The verb is from the noun.
Pronunciation
Noun
mandate (plural mandates)
- (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
- 2017 March 27, “The Observer view on triggering article 50”, in The Observer[1]:
- Instead, May, more sheep than shepherd, has feebly allowed herself to be driven ever further towards an extreme, inflexible, take-it-or-leave-it stance for which she has neither mandate nor credible grounds.
- (politics) The authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.
- 2002, Leroy G. Dorsey, The Presidency and Rhetorical Leadership, Texas A&M University Press (→ISBN), page 30
- John Tyler and James K. Polk both regarded the election results as a mandate for the annexation of Texas.
- 2002, Leroy G. Dorsey, The Presidency and Rhetorical Leadership, Texas A&M University Press (→ISBN), page 30
- A papal rescript.
- (Canada) A period during which a government is in power.
- 2000 October 6, John Richards, “Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1919-2000”, in The Globe and Mail[2]:
- Throughout his last mandate, from 1980 to 1984, Mr. Trudeau insisted that we see ourselves solely as Canadians, that we set aside the historic compromises that underlie Canada as a federation.
Translations
official command
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the authority to do something or to act
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Verb
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Derived terms
Translations
authorize
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Further reading
- “mandate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “mandate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
French
Pronunciation
Verb
mandate
- first-person singular present indicative of mandater
- third-person singular present indicative of mandater
- first-person singular present subjunctive of mandater
- second-person singular imperative of mandater
Italian
Noun
mandate f
Verb
mandate
- second-person plural present of mandare
- second-person plural imperative of mandare
- feminine plural past participle of mandare
Anagrams
Latin
Participle
(deprecated template usage) mandāte
Spanish
Verb
mandate
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of mandatar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of mandatar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of mandatar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of mandatar.
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