The meaning of MANDATE is an authoritative command; especially : a formal order from a superior court or official to an inferior one. How to use mandate in a sentence.
MANDATE definition: a command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative. See examples of mandate used in a sentence.
MANDATE meaning: 1. the authority given to an elected group of people, such as a government, to perform an action or…. Learn more.
There are 13 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun mandate, three of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
Government authorization to act in a particular way given by the people to an elected representative: The new president received a clear mandate to spend money.
mandate (third-person singular simple present mandates, present participle mandating, simple past and past participle mandated) To (officially) require someone to do something or act in a certain way, to give them the authority to do so; to command.
He believed he had been given a mandate (from the people) to implement his policies. There is no mandate to raise taxes.
Definition of mandate noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. the authority to do something, given to a government or other organization by the people who vote for it in an election. It is undemocratic to govern an area without an electoral mandate.