| query | If someone is given a m______ to carry out a particular policy or task, they are given the official authority to do it.If someone is given a mandate to carry out a particular policy or task, they are given the official authority to do it. How much longer does the independent prosecutor have a mandate to pursue this investigation? A mandate from the U.N. would be needed before any plans could be implemented. |
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| word | mandate |
| full-definition | noun If a government or other elected body has a mandate to carry out a particular policy or task, they have the authority to carry it out as a result of winning an election or vote . The President and his supporters are almost certain to read this vote as a mandate for continued economic reform. The union already has a mandate from its conference to ballot for a strike . If someone is given a mandate to carry out a particular policy or task, they are given the official authority to do it. How much longer does the independent prosecutor have a mandate to pursue this investigation? A mandate from the U.N. would be needed before any plans could be implemented. You can refer to the fixed length of time that a country's leader or government remains in office as their mandate . ...his intention to leave politics once his mandate ends. verb When someone is mandated to carry out a particular policy or task, they are given the official authority to do it. He'd been mandated by the West African Economic Community to go in and to enforce a ceasefire. The elections are mandated by a peace accord signed by the government last May. To mandate something means to make it mandatory . The proposed initiative would mandate a reduction of carbon dioxide of 40%. Quebec mandated that all immigrants send their children to French schools. ...constitutionally mandated civil rights. |
| inflections | mandatesmandatingmandated |
| cefr-level | C1 |
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