noun. An authoritative command or instruction.

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

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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.

transitive verb. 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.

To command.

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

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

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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. 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.

noun. A contract by which one employs another to manage any business for him. By the Roman law, it must have been gratuitous.

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

verb. to authorize

noun. a document giving an official instruction or command

verb. make mandatory

verb. assign authority to

verb. assign under a mandate

noun. the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory

noun. a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves

"If you don't have the product then don't bother me with all the LOI, and I hate to hear the term mandate, and all the BS that go with it."

mandatee  mandator  

assign  commission  commissioning  delegate  depute  

commandment  declaration  decree  directive  edict  

adverse possession  agency  agentship  ally  alodium  

mandated  mandates  mandating