- mandate
- [[t]mæ̱ndeɪt[/t]]
mandates, mandating, mandated1) 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...
The union already has a mandate from its conference to ballot for a strike .
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?...
A mandate from the UN would be needed before any plans could be implemented.
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 When someone is mandated to carry out a particular policy or task, they are given the official authority to do it. [FORMAL][be V-ed to-inf] He'd been mandated by the West African Economic Community to go in and to enforce a ceasefire...
[be V-ed] The elections are mandated by a peace accord signed by the government last May.
5) VERB To mandate something means to make it mandatory. [AM][V n] The proposed initiative would mandate a reduction of carbon dioxide of 40%...
[V that] Sixteen years ago, Quebec mandated that all immigrants send their children to French schools.
[V-ed] ...constitutionally mandated civil rights.
English dictionary. 2008.
