(~s, mandating, ~d)
1.
If a government or other elected body has a ~ 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 ~ for continued economic reform...
N-COUNT: oft N for n, N to-inf
2.
If someone is given a ~ 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 ~ 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 ~. (FORMAL)
...his intention to leave politics once his ~ ends.
N-COUNT: usu with poss
4.
When someone is ~d to carry out a particular policy or task, they are given the official authority to do it. (FORMAL)
He’d been ~d by the West African Economic Community to go in and to enforce a ceasefire...
The elections are ~d by a peace accord signed by the government last May.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed to-inf, be V-ed
5.
To ~ something means to make it mandatory. (AM)
The proposed initiative would ~ a reduction of carbon dioxide of 40%...
Quebec ~d that all immigrants send their children to French schools.
...constitutionally ~d civil rights.
VERB: V n, V that, V-ed