Definitions for mandate

• Definition
• Anagrams (186)

mandate man·date

Spelling: [man-deyt]

IPA: /ˈmæn deɪt/

Mandate is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 186 anagrams from letters in mandate (aademnt).

Definitions for mandate

noun

1. a command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative:
2. a command from a superior court or official to a lower one:
3. an authoritative order or command:
4. (in the League of Nations) a commission given to a nation to administer the government and affairs of a former Turkish territory or German colony.
5. a mandated territory or colony.
6. Roman Catholic Church. an order issued by the pope, especially one commanding the preferment of a certain person to a benefice.
7. Roman and Civil Law. a contract by which one engages gratuitously to perform services for another.
8. (in modern civil law) any contract by which a person undertakes to perform services for another.
9. Roman Law. an order or decree by the emperor, especially to governors of provinces.

verb (used with object)

1. to authorize or decree (a particular action), as by the enactment of law:
2. to order or require; make mandatory:
3. to consign (a territory, colony, etc.) to the charge of a particular nation under a mandate.

Origin of mandate

1540-50; Latin mandātum, noun use of neuter of mandātus, past participle of mandāre to commission, literally, to give into (someone's) hand. See manus, Examples for mandate

As the Gerawan ordeal reveals, however, the current board seems to lack such a balanced vision of its mandate.

The wretched Theodora was then ordered to retire, but she was unable to obey the mandate.

It was the mandate of his instinct that that head must be free.

“The mandate requires us in essence to become abortion providers,” Hobby Lobby President Steve Green told reporters last fall.

I was only too glad to comply with this mandate, but it was long ere I slept.

While she accepted him because it was the mandate of the gods, that was no reason that she should leave him in peace.

The mandate was obeyed, and Bates was lodged in the forecastle, securely ironed.

Part of the problem is the mandate of the war and the means with which the U.S. is fighting it do not match up.

Religious groups, freedom-of-religion groups, and others who oppose the mandate have filed 59 friend-of-the-court briefs.

The act does not increase taxes, create a new program, or mandate a curriculum.