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Mandate Mandated Carry Policy Task Authority Official Government

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When someone is m_______ to carry out a particular policy or task, they are given the official authority to do it.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.
word mandate
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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.
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