mandate
man|date /m'ændeɪt/ (mandates mandating mandated)
1 [N-COUNT] oft N for n, N to-inf
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...
2 [N-COUNT] oft N to-inf
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?...
3 [N-COUNT] usu with poss
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.
4 [VERB] usu passive, be V-ed to-inf, be V-ed
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.
5 [VERB] V n, V that, V-ed
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.
1 [N-COUNT] oft N for n, N to-inf
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...
2 [N-COUNT] oft N to-inf
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?...
3 [N-COUNT] usu with poss
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.
4 [VERB] usu passive, be V-ed to-inf, be V-ed
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.
5 [VERB] V n, V that, V-ed
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.