Mandate definition and meaning
Mandate definition: If a government or other elected body has a mandate to carry out a particular policy or… | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples
Word forms:
mandates
,
mandating
,
mandated
1.
countable noun
mandate
to carry out a particular policy or task, they have the authority to carry it out
as a result of winning an election or vote.
The president and his supporters are almost certain to read this vote as a mandate
for continued economic reform.
2.
countable noun
mandate
to carry out a particular policy or task, they are given the official authority to
do it.
How much longer does the independent prosecutor have a mandate to pursue this investigation?
3.
countable noun
in office as their
mandate
.
[
formal
]
…his intention to leave politics once his mandate ends.
4.
transitive verb
[
usu passive
]
is mandated
to
carry out a particular policy or task, they are given the official authority to do
it.
[
formal
]
He’d been mandated by the West African Economic Community to go in and to enforce
a ceasefire.
5.
transitive verb
mandate
something means to make it mandatory.
[
US
]
The proposed initiative would mandate a reduction of carbon dioxide of 40%.
Sixteen years ago, Quebec mandated that all immigrants send their children to French
schools.
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