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Mandate

Mandate Meaning & Definition
Mandate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Mandate?

[n] (politics) the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory
[n] a document giving an official instruction or command
[n] a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and inhabited by people not yet able to stand by themselves and so put under the tutelage of some other European power
[v] assign authority to
[v] assign under a mandate; of nations

Synonyms | Synonyms for Mandate: authorisation | authorization | mandatory

Related Terms | Find terms related to Mandate: 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

See Also | assign | assign | commission | commissioning | delegate | delegate | depute | depute | designate | designate | dominion | instrument | legal document | legal instrument | official document | province | territorial dominion | territory

Mandate In Webster's Dictionary

\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; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept. This dream all-powerful Juno; I bear Her mighty mandates, and her words you hear. --Dryden. 2. (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. 3. (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.

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