Found 4 items, similar to mandate.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: mandate mandat
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: mandate perintah
English → English (WordNet) Definition: mandate mandate n 1: a document giving an official instruction or command [syn: authorization, authorisation] 2: a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they ar able to stand by themselves [syn: mandatory] 3: the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory v 1: assign under a mandate; “mandate a colony” 2: make mandatory; “the new director of the schoolbaord mandated regular tests” 3: assign authority to
English → English (gcide) Definition: Mandate Mandate \Man"date\, n. [L. mandatum, fr. mandare to commit to one's charge, order, orig., to put into one's hand; manus hand + dare to give: cf. F. mandat. See Manual, Date a time, and cf. Commend, Maundy Thursday.] 1. An official or authoritative command, order, or authorization from a superior official to a subordinate; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept. [1913 Webster] This dream all-powerful Juno; I bear Her mighty mandates, and her words you hear. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence: (Politics) An authorization to carry out a specific public policy, given by the electorate to their representatives; -- it is considered to be implied by the election of a candidate by a significant margin after that candidate has campaigned with that policy as a prominent element of the campaign platform. [PJC] 3. Hence: Authorization by a multinational body to a nation to administer the government and affairs of a territory, usually a former colony; as, termination of the British mandate in Palestine. [PJC] 4. (Canon Law) A rescript of the pope, commanding an ordinary collator to put the person therein named in possession of the first vacant benefice in his collation. [1913 Webster] 5. (Scots Law) A contract by which one employs another to manage any business for him. By the Roman law, it must have been gratuitous. --Erskine. [1913 Webster]