MANDATE


Meaning of MANDATE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ mændeɪt ]

( mandates, mandating, mandated)

1.

If a government or other elected body has a 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...

N-COUNT : oft N for n , N to-inf

2.

If someone is given a 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?...

N-COUNT : oft N to-inf

3.

You can refer to the fixed length of time that a country’s leader or government remains in office as their mandate . ( FORMAL )

...his intention to leave politics once his mandate ends.

N-COUNT : usu with poss

4.

When someone 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...

The elections are mandated by a peace accord signed by the government last May.

VERB : usu passive , be V-ed to-inf , be V-ed

5.

To mandate something means to make it mandatory. ( AM )

The proposed initiative would mandate a reduction of carbon dioxide of 40%...

Quebec mandated that all immigrants send their children to French schools.

...constitutionally mandated civil rights.

VERB : V n , V that , V-ed

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