mandatenoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˈmæn.deɪt/us/ˈmæn.deɪt/mandate noun [ C usually singular ] (AUTHORITY)
the authority given to an elected group of people, such as a government, to perform an action or govern a country:
At the forthcoming elections, the government will be seeking a fresh mandate from the people.
[ + to infinitive ] The president secured the Congressional mandate to go to war by three votes.
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Elections
- absentee ballot
- absentee vote
- absolute majority
- abstain
- abstention
- first-past-the-post
- franchise
- general election
- gerrymandering
- go to the country idiom
- landslide
- nominate
- rigging
- running mate
- safe
- scrutineer
- secret ballot
- show of hands
- stump
- vote of confidence
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mandate noun [ C usually singular ] (AREA NAME)
specialized politics the name of an area of land that has been given to a country by the UN, following or as part of a peace agreement
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Colonisation & self-government
- annex
- autonomous
- autonomy
- client state
- colonial
- crown colony
- decolonization
- dependency
- devolution
- devolve
- independence
- Independence Day
- nationalism
- nationalist
- neocolonialism
- self-government
- self-rule
- separatism
- separatist
- the British Empire
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mandateverb [ T ]
uk/ˈmæn.deɪt/us/ˈmæn.deɪt/mandate verb [ T ] (GIVE PERMISSION)
to give official permission for something to happen:
The UN rush to mandate war totally ruled out any alternatives.
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Allowing and permitting
- admit of sth
- allow
- allow of sth
- allowable
- authorization
- authorize
- concession
- green
- leave
- let
- let sb/sth in
- let sb/sth out
- licence
- license
- OK
- open the floodgates idiom
- sanction
- submit
- unlicensed
- variance
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mandate verb [ T ] (ORDER)
mainly US to order someone to do something:
[ + to infinitive ] Our delegates have been mandated to vote against the proposal at the conference.
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Giving orders & commands
- all-points bulletin
- bade
- boss
- bossyboots
- chain of command
- charge
- crack the whip idiom
- defy
- demand
- dun
- enjoin
- expect
- forget
- harry
- lay down the law idiom
- ordain
- order sb around
- overbearing
- prescribed
- steamroller
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