mandate
See also: Mandate, mandaté, and man date
English
Etymology 1
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
![](Images/wiktionary/League_of_Nations_mandate_Middle_East_and_Africa.png.webp)
A map showing Middle Eastern and African mandates.
- IPA(key): /ˈmændeɪt/
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- Verb
- IPA(key): /ˈmændeɪt/, /mænˈdeɪt/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪt
Noun
mandate (plural mandates)
- An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.
- 2017 March 27, “The Observer view on triggering article 50”, in The Observer:
- 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.
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- (politics) The order or 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.
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- (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, archived from the original on 9 October 2019, retrieved 9 October 2019:
- 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.
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- (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.
- (historical) Such a territory.
Translations
official command
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the authority to do something or to act
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Verb
mandate (third-person singular simple present mandates, present participle mandating, simple past and past participle mandated)
- (Discuss(+) this sense) To authorize.
- To make mandatory.
Derived terms
- mandatary
- mandatee
- mandator
- mandatory
Translations
authorize
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Etymology 2
From man + date.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmæn.deɪt/
Noun
mandate (plural mandates)
- (uncommon) Alternative form of man date: a date between two men.
- 2007 September 7, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 3:
- Moss: Oh, he's long gone, although Roy's got a mandate with him.
Roy: It is not a mandate. I am not a man-woman. We are not married. I am not your wife!
- Moss: Oh, he's long gone, although Roy's got a mandate with him.
- 2007 September 7, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 3:
References
- mandate at OneLook Dictionary Search
- mandate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- mandate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911]
French
Pronunciation
- Homophones: mandatent, mandates
Verb
mandate
- inflection of mandater:
- first/third-person singular present indicative
- first-person singular present subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Italian
Noun
mandate f
- plural of mandata
Verb
mandate
- inflection of mandare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
- feminine plural past participle
Anagrams
- Damante, damante
Latin
Participle
mandāte
- vocative masculine singular of mandātus
Spanish
Verb
mandate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of mandar combined with te
- inflection of mandatar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative