mandate

Definitions

1. Mandate, term of office.
2. An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.
3. The order or authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.
4. A period during which a government is in power.
   Canada
5. An order by the League of Nations to a member nation to establish a government responsible for a conquered territory, as the colonies of Germany after World War I.
   historical
6. Such a territory.
   historical

Equivalents

Examples

“Enactive. Expositive. / Art. 57. XIII 2. The Registrative, or say⟳ Recordative: exercised, by the arrangements and operations, by which, in conformity to corresponding ordinances and mandates, the accounts, given at different periods by the exercise of the statistic function, are kept in contiguity, and in a regular series, for the purpose of reference and comparison.”

“Instead, May, more sheep than shepherd, has feebly allowed herself to be driven ever further towards an extreme, inflexible, take-it-or-leave-it stance for which she has neither mandate nor credible grounds.”

“John Tyler and James K. Polk both regarded the election results as a mandate for the annexation of Texas.”

“Throughout his last⟳ mandate, from 1980 to 1984, Mr. Trudeau insisted that we see⟳ ourselves solely as Canadians, that we set⟳ aside the historic compromises that underlie Canada as a federation.”

“Moss: Oh, he's long gone, although Roy's got a mandate with him. Roy: It is not a mandate. I am not a man-woman. We are not married. I am not your wife!”

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