mandate

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.
2. 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.
5. (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.

Verb

1. To (officially) require someone to do something or act in a certain way, to give them the authority to do so; to command.
2. To make mandatory.
3. To administer or assign a territory to a nation under a mandate.
4. (Scotland, especially) To repeat, rehearse sermons or speeches aloud.

Concepts

mandat

commission

autorisation

mandater

autoriser

imposer

mission

obliger

période

autonomisation

capacitation

législature

instruction

Synonymes

order

command

authorization

decree

commission

instruction

injunction

warrant

charge

dictate

edict

power of attorney

assignment

proxy

credentials

behest

authorisation

writ

mandatory

law

requisition

impose

commandment

sanction

direction

compel

dominion

assert

oblige

coerce

summons

task

bidding

brief

directive

thrust

mission

ordinance

prescript

prescription

colony

force

authority

necessitate

govern

constrain

require

rule

errand

problem

proceeds

procuration

protectorate

put on

regulation

ruling

say-so

seat

💺

set

settlement

slate

stipulate

subcommittee

tax

teaching

tell

tenure

term of office

trust

ultimatum

will

prohibition

accreditation

instruct to

percentage

%

allot

apply

appointment

assign

assignation

attorn

authorise

authorize

bid

condition

constitute

control

delegate

demand

dependency

depute

designate

determine

dictation

directions

empower

enjoin

entrust

entrustment

fiat

give

imperative

impose upon

inflict

instructions

interdict

interdiction

job

lay down

lesson

letters patent

modify

ordain

payment order

admeasure

period

permission

place

possession

post

postal order

precept

prescribe

Traductions

mandato

Mandat

mandaat

volmacht

Auftrag

imponer

opdracht

autorización

dringen

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈmændeɪt/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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”) + -dere (“to put”).
Sense 3 in Canadian English is likely a semantic loan from French mandat.