mandate

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English

Etymology 1

First attested in 1521; borrowed from Latin mandātum (“a charge, order, command, commission, injunction”), substantivized from the neuter forms of mandātus, perfect passive participle of mandō (“to commit to one's charge, order, command, commission, literally to put into one's hands”) (see -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from manus (“hand”) + dare (“to put”).

Pronunciation

Noun

• IPA^(key): /ˈmændeɪt/

Verb

• IPA^(key): /ˈmændeɪt/, /mænˈdeɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt

Noun

mandate (plural mandates)

1. An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.

   Synonyms: compulsion, obligation
2. (politics) The order or authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.
3. (Canada) A period during which a government is in power.
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.
   1. (historical) Such a territory.

Derived terms

• dual mandate
• mandate fraud

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

First attested in 1623; partly directly borrowed from Latin mandātus (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more), partly from the above noun by metanalysis.

Verb

mandate (third-person singular simple present mandates, present participle mandating, simple past and past participle mandated)

1. (Discuss⁽⁺⁾ this sense) To authorize, give permission. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. To command.
3. To make mandatory.
4. (Scotland, especially Christianity) To repeat, rehearse sermons or speeches aloud.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

From man +‎ date.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæn.deɪt/

Noun

mandate (plural mandates)

1. (uncommon) Alternative form of man date: a date between two men.
   • 2007 September 7, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 3:

     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!

References

• “mandate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “mandate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “mandate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: mandatent, mandates

Verb

mandate

1. inflection of mandater:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative
   2. first-person singular present subjunctive
   3. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Noun

mandate f

1. plural of mandata

Verb

mandate

1. inflection of mandare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative
   3. feminine plural past participle

Anagrams

• Damante, damante

Latin

Participle

mandāte

1. vocative masculine singular of mandātus

Spanish

Verb

mandate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of mandar combined with te
2. inflection of mandatar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative