mandate
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Is mandate a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (politics) The order or authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.Examples: "John Tyler and James K. Polk both regarded the election results as a mandate for the annexation of Texas."
2. (Canada) A period during which a government is in power.Examples: "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."Canada
3. (historical) 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
4. (historical) 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
verb (English)
1. (Scotland, especially Christianity) To repeat, rehearse sermons or speeches aloud.Examples: "After I have mandated my exercices."; "He [sc. Archbishop Secker] then proceeds to express his disapprobation of what is called Mandating of Sermons, or repeating them from memory. This custom prevails much among foreign Divines, and throughout the whole Church of Scotland."; "He rose and walked his study, ‘mandating’ his opening sentences with appropriate gestures."Scotlandespecially
noun (English)
1. (uncommon) Alternative form of man date: a date between two men.Examples: "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!"alt-ofalternativeuncommon
Definition source: Wiktionary