Mandate

What do we mean by mandate?

An authoritative command or instruction. noun

A command or authorization given by a political electorate to the winner of an election. noun

A commission from the League of Nations authorizing a member nation to administer a territory. noun

A region under such administration. noun

The specific directive issued by a reviewing court to a lower court, as in requiring the lower court to enter a new judgment or to conduct further proceedings consistent with the reviewing court's ruling. noun

To assign (a colony or territory) to a specified nation under a mandate of the League of Nations. transitive verb

To make mandatory, as by law; decree or require. transitive verb

To command.

To commit (a sermon, speech, etc.) to memory by repeating (it) aloud to one's self before delivery.

A command; an order, precept, or injunction; a commission. noun

An official command addressed by a superior to an inferior, to control his conduct in a specific manner. noun

In early Rom. law (before the doctrines of agency were developed), a trust or commission by which one person, called the mandator, requested another, the mandatarius, to act in his own name and as if for himself in a particular transaction (special mandate), or in all the affairs of the former (general mandate). noun

In civil law noun

A contract of bailment in which a thing is transferred by the mandator to the possession of the mandatory, upon an undertaking of the latter to perform gratuitously some service in reference to it: distinguished from a mere deposit for safe keeping. noun

A contract of agency by which the mandator confides a matter of business, or his business generally, to an agent called the mandatary. noun

An official or authoritative command, order, or authorization from a superior official to a subordinate; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept. noun

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. noun

Authorization by a multinational body to a nation to administer the government and affairs of a territory, usually a former colony. noun

An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.

The authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.

A papal rescript.

A period during which a government is in power.

A gathering of ONLY men. Activites during mandates include cruising, playing madden, going to wendy's. When one is one a mandate, one must show the mandate symbol. This is done by crossing the middle finger and the ring finger so the hand resembles an "M". smeazles Urban Dictionary

A command, order. Urban Dictionary

A social party with men and/or male-related activities. Although some people propose that it be only an all-male gathering, some ManDates do include women, and the ManDate just signifies the partaking of male-oriented activites. Urban Dictionary

What Elton John goes on Urban Dictionary

The opposite of winning an election by three percent, especially when you are running against the no.1 liberal in the senate Massachusettes flip flop with less charisma than a Al Gore, or even his recently deceased mother. Urban Dictionary

A get together for the homosexuals of your town/city. may include some sexual content... and fabulous design. Urban Dictionary

The right to rule, having legitimate authority. Normally by winning a fair election. Urban Dictionary

A date with a man, especially when both are men Urban Dictionary

Mandatory volunteering Urban Dictionary

A girl that looks like she has "been around the block" and looks weathered Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to mandate:
mandate, mandat, mandare, mandato, man date.

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Words that rhyme with mandate:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe mandate:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective mandate:
period, government, era, system, authority, power, times, law, periods, principle, theory, immunity, question, territories, training, independence, immigration, degrees, rule, drafting, parliament, agreement, fall, refugees.

Consonant match to mandate:
manned it.

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