mandate
An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.
Noun 3 meanings
An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.
The order or authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.
A period during which a government is in power.
Verb 4 meanings
To (officially) require someone to do something or act in a certain way, to give them the authority to do so; to command.
To make mandatory.
To administer or assign a territory to a nation under a mandate.
To repeat, rehearse sermons or speeches aloud.
Etymology
First attested in 1521; borrowed from Latin mandātum (“a charge, order, command, commission, injunction”), substantivized from the neuter forms of mandātus, perfect passive participle of mandō (“to commit to one's charge, order, command, commission, literally to put into one's hands”) (see -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from manus (“hand”) + -dere (“to put”).
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MANDATE at a glance
MANDATE has 7 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (M 3 + A 1 + N 1 + D 2 + A 1 + T 1 + E 1) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,357 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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