| 单词 | mandate |
| 释义 | mandate (once / 704 pages) 1nv 2n A mandate is an official command or a go-ahead. When a politician wins an election by a wide margin, that's a mandate to implement her ideas. A mandate gives authority. If the government gives schools a mandate to test more, then the schools had better give more tests. People who work for the Peace Corps have a mandate to help various countries with things like getting clean drinking water. A politician who believes in higher taxes and then gets elected considers that a mandate to raise taxes. When you have a mandate, it's like a ticket to get something done. WORD FAMILYmandate: mandatary, mandated, mandates, mandating, mandatory+/mandatary: mandataries/mandatory: mandatories, mandatorily, nonmandatory USAGE EXAMPLESFor instance, that bill eliminated the tax penalties, tax credits and cost-sharing subsidies central to the ACA’s individual mandate to purchase health insurance. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Explaining this research is clearly within the mandate of the Labor Department, whose mission statement includes a pledge to “advance opportunities for profitable employment.” Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) A bipartisan collection of U.S. lawmakers is gearing up to expand CFIUS’s legal mandate, in part to demand greater access by U.S. investors into China. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n a document giving an official instruction or command Syn|Hyper authorisation, authorization instrument, legal document, legal instrument, official document (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right 2n the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory Hyper commission, commissioning the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions 3v assign under a mandate mandate a colony Hyper assign, delegate, depute, designate give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) 4v assign authority to Hyper assign, delegate, depute, designate give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) 5v make mandatory 2the new director of the school board mandated regular tests Hyper dictate, order, prescribe issue commands or orders for n 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 Syn|Exp|Hyper mandatory Palestine a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948 district, dominion, territorial dominion, territory a region marked off for administrative or other purposes |
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