'Mandate' definitions:
Definition of 'mandate'
From: WordNet
noun
A document giving an official instruction or command [syn: mandate, authorization, authorisation]
noun
A territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves [syn: mandate, mandatory]
noun
The commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory
verb
Assign under a mandate; "mandate a colony"
verb
Make mandatory; "the new director of the school board mandated regular tests"
verb
Assign authority to
Definition of 'Mandate'
From: GCIDE
- Mandate \Man"date\, n. [L. mandatum, fr. mandare to commit to one's charge, order, orig., to put into one's hand; manus hand + dare to give: cf. F. mandat. See Manual, Date a time, and cf. Commend, Maundy Thursday.]
- 1. An official or authoritative command, order, or authorization from a superior official to a subordinate; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept. [1913 Webster]
- This dream all-powerful Juno; I bear Her mighty mandates, and her words you hear. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence: (Politics) An authorization to carry out a specific public policy, given by the electorate to their representatives; -- it is considered to be implied by the election of a candidate by a significant margin after that candidate has campaigned with that policy as a prominent element of the campaign platform. [PJC]
- 3. Hence: Authorization by a multinational body to a nation to administer the government and affairs of a territory, usually a former colony; as, termination of the British mandate in Palestine. [PJC]
- 4. (Canon Law) A rescript of the pope, commanding an ordinary collator to put the person therein named in possession of the first vacant benefice in his collation. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Scots Law) A contract by which one employs another to manage any business for him. By the Roman law, it must have been gratuitous. --Erskine. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'mandate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adverse possession,
- agency,
- agentship,
- ally,
- alodium,
- archduchy,
- archdukedom,
- assignment,
- authority,
- authorization,
- behest,
- bench warrant,
- bid,
- bidding,
- body politic,
- brevet,
- buffer state,
- burgage,
- call on,
- call the signals,
- call upon,
- capias,
- captive nation,
- care,
- caveat,
- charge,
- chieftaincy,
- chieftainry,
- city-state,
- claim,
- colony,
- command,
- commission,
- commissioning,
- commitment,
- commonweal,
- commonwealth,
- consignment,
- constitutional referendum,
- country,
- county,
- cure,
- de facto,
- de jure,
- death warrant,
- declare,
- decree,
- delegated authority,
- delegation,
- dependency,
- deputation,
- derivative title,
- devolution,
- devolvement,
- dictate,
- direct,
- direct initiative,
- domain,
- dominion,
- duchy,
- dukedom,
- earldom,
- embassy,
- empery,
- empire,
- empowerment,
- enjoin,
- entrusting,
- entrustment,
- errand,
- executorship,
- exequatur,
- factorship,
- facultative referendum,
- fee fief,
- fee position,
- fee simple,
- fee simple absolute,
- fee simple conditional,
- fee simple defeasible,
- fee simple determinable,
- fee tail,
- feodum,
- feud,
- fiat,
- fiefdom,
- fieri facias,
- frankalmoign,
- free city,
- free socage,
- freehold,
- full power,
- gavelkind,
- give an order,
- give the word,
- grand duchy,
- habere facias possessionem,
- having title to,
- hold,
- holding,
- imperative,
- indirect initiative,
- initiative,
- injunction,
- instruct,
- interdict,
- issue a command,
- issue a writ,
- jurisdiction,
- kingdom,
- knight service,
- land,
- lay fee,
- lease,
- leasehold,
- legal claim,
- legal possession,
- legation,
- license,
- lieutenancy,
- mandamus,
- mandant,
- mandated territory,
- mandatee,
- mandatory,
- mandatory injunction,
- mandatory referendum,
- mission,
- mittimus,
- nation,
- nationality,
- nisi prius,
- notice,
- notification,
- occupancy,
- occupation,
- office,
- ordain,
- order,
- order about,
- original title,
- owning,
- plebiscite,
- plebiscitum,
- plenipotentiary power,
- polis,
- polity,
- possessing,
- possession,
- power,
- power of attorney,
- power to act,
- precept,
- preoccupancy,
- preoccupation,
- prepossession,
- prescription,
- principality,
- principate,
- process,
- proclaim,
- procuration,
- prohibitory injunction,
- promulgate,
- pronounce,
- property,
- property rights,
- proprietary rights,
- protectorate,
- province,
- proxy,
- puppet government,
- puppet regime,
- purview,
- realm,
- recall,
- referendum,
- regency,
- regentship,
- republic,
- responsibility,
- rule,
- satellite,
- say the word,
- search warrant,
- seisin,
- seneschalty,
- settlement,
- socage,
- sovereign nation,
- squatting,
- state,
- statutory referendum,
- sublease,
- sultanate,
- superpower,
- task,
- tenancy,
- tenantry,
- tenure,
- tenure in chivalry,
- territory,
- title,
- toparchia,
- toparchy,
- trust,
- trusteeship,
- underlease,
- undertenancy,
- usucapion,
- vicarious authority,
- villein socage,
- villeinhold,
- villenage,
- warrant,
- warrant of arrest,
- warrant of attorney,
- word,
- writ