mandat

Meaning

1. mandate
2. postal order, money order
3. power of attorney, proxy
4. warrant
5. term (of office)

Concepts

mandate

warrant

authorization

power of attorney

writ

terms of reference

order

brief

term

money order

instruction

term of office

command

authorisation

payment order

postal order

arrest warrant

commit

entrust

directions

authority

commission

incumbency

tenure

empowerment

judicial writ

stock warrant

stock-purchase warrant

proxy

form

access control

period

Hyphenated as

man‧dat

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mɑ̃.da/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mandātum, from mandō (“put in one's hands, command”), from Proto-Indo-European *man- (“hand”) + *dʰeh₁- (“put”).

Sentences

Il devient adjoint aux Finances au cours de ce premier mandat municipal .

He became Finance Assistant during this first municipal term.

Les députés sont élus pour un mandat de quatre ans .

Deputies are elected for four-year terms.

Tous les autres étaient quinquagénaires lors de l'exercice de ce mandat .

All the others were in their fifties at the time of the exercise of this mandate.