mandate
pronunciation
How to pronounce mandate in British English:
UK [ˈmændeɪt]
How to pronounce mandate in American English:
US [ˈmændeɪt]
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- Noun:
- a document giving an official instruction or command
- a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they ar able to stand by themselves
- the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory
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- Verb:
- assign under a mandate
- make mandatory
- assign authority to
Word Origin
- mandate
- mandate: [16] Etymologically, mandate means ‘give one’s hand’. It comes from mandātum (source also of English maundy), a noun use of the past participle of Latin mandāre ‘commit, command’. This verb was formed by blending manus ‘hand’ and dāre ‘give’. English verbs derived from mandāre are command, commend, demand, and remand.=> command, commend, date, demand, donation, manual, maundy, remand
- mandate (n.)
- "judicial or legal order," c. 1500, from Middle French mandat (15c.) and directly from Latin mandatum "commission, command, order," noun use of neuter past participle of mandare "to order, commit to one's charge," literally "to give into one's hand," probably from manus "hand" (see manual) + dare "to give" (see date (n.1)). Political sense of "approval supposedly conferred by voters to the policies or slogans advocated by winners of an election" is from 1796. League of Nations sense is from 1919.
- mandate (v.)
- 1620s, "to command," from mandate (n.). Meaning "to delegate authority, permit to act on behalf of a group" is from 1958; used earlier in the context of the League of Nations, "to authorize a power to control a certain territory for some specified purpose" (1919). Related: Mandated; mandating.
Example
- 1. The efsf 's mandate and size need to be expanded to include bank recapitalization .
- 2. But a mandate for what ?
- 3. The mandate gives barack obama carte blanche to regulate the power industry .
- 4. An individual mandate could violate that right by restricting choices of doctors or procedures .
- 5. Coalitions of states are pursuing several different lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of this mandate .