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