mandate
1. the authority given to an elected group of people, such as a government, to…
Meaning of
mandate
in English
mandate
noun
us
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mandate
noun
[C usually singular]
(
AUTHORITY
)
authority
given to an
elected
group
of
people
, such as a
government
, to
perform
an
action
or
govern
a
country
:
At the
forthcoming
elections
, the
governor
will be
seeking
a
fresh
mandate
from
the
people
.
The
president
secured
the Congressional mandate
to
go to
war
by three
votes
.
mandate
noun
[C usually singular]
(
AREA NAME
)
politics
specialized
name
of an
area
of
land
that has been given to a
country
by the UN,
following
or as
part
of a
peace
agreement
Colonization & self-government
mandate
verb
us
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mandate
verb
[T]
(
GIVE PERMISSION
)
The UN
rush
to mandate
war
totally
ruled
out any
alternatives
.
mandate
verb
[T]
(
ORDER
)
mainly
US
Our
delegates
have been mandated
to
vote
against the
proposal
at the
conference
.
(Definition of
mandate
Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus
© Cambridge University Press)
mandate
| Intermediate English
mandate
noun
us
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ˈmæn·deɪt
/
authority
to
act
in a
particular
way given to a
government
or a
person
,
esp
. as a
result
of a
vote
or
ruling
:
The
president
secured
a
congressional
mandate to
send
troops
to Bosnia.
mandate
verb
us
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ˈmæn·deɪt
/
The
law
mandated a
minimum
six-year
sentence
for
violent
crimes
.
(Definition of
mandate
Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
mandate
| Business English
mandate
noun
uk
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mandate to do sth
Norad’s mandate is to
promote
effective
management
of
funds
for
development
assistance
.
The
region
is already under
federal
mandate to
reduce
air
pollution
.
GOVERNMENT
mandate to do sth
The
government
claimed
that it had a mandate to
raise
taxes
.
The
CEO
disputed
that the
disposal
of the 10.5 million
shares
was
based
on the
shareholder
mandate
.
GOVERNMENT
She has just another two
months
in
office
before her mandate comes to an end.
BANKING
mandate
verb
uk
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mandate sb to do sth
Lawmakers mandated them to
change
the
rules
after
questions
about the
safety
of the
procedure
arose
.
mandate that
The
government
should have mandated that these
figures
be made
public
.
In Ohio, every
bridge
is mandated to be
inspected
annually
.
mandate sb to do sth
The
department
was mandated to
proceed
with the
project
.
(Definition of
mandate
Cambridge Business English Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
Examples
of
mandate
He said over and over that his program would not contain a
mandate
.
Washington Post
Under current corporate law, a company’s sole
mandate
is to maximize shareholder value — make as much profit as possible — for its shareholders.
VentureBeat
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Here is where the health care
mandate
becomes tricky, and the president’s proposals have the high ground.
Baltimore Sun
Guess who pays the cost of meeting all those mandates.
Chicago Tribune
Indeed, many are coming to the conclusion that their religious beliefs
mandate
care and concern for the environment and the species that reside in it.
Huffington Post
So there’s a
mandate
there for them to make significant change.
CNBC
It specifically cites the
mandate
as “essential” to creating a health market in which insurance companies can not turn people down.
Politico
I would like to see a
mandate
for social and emotional learning absolutely mandated in every state.
Huffington Post
The phaseout was mandated by an energy law passed in 2007.
Washington Post
But the individual
mandate
— the requirement that people have insurance or pay a tax — is almost certain to go.
NBCNews.com
But they put so many mandates in it that they made it too expensive.
The Hill
The employer
mandate
requires employers to offer a federally defined level of insurance or pay a fine.
Heritage.org
The
mandate
is simply a polite fiction, to allow guaranteed-issue to pass.
Washington Post
Collocations
with
mandate
mandate
These are words often used in combination with
mandate
.
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Accountability is ensured by giving a
clear
mandate
to the pension boards and then monitoring them effectively.
Cambridge English Corpus
Perhaps what discredited the system more was the implementation of market reforms for which there was no
electoral
mandate
and which aggravated social tensions.
Cambridge English Corpus
This article examines the origins and evolution of the idea of an
employer
mandate
and labor’s entanglements with the institutions of the private welfare state.
Cambridge English Corpus
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