mandate
mandate is a 7-letter English word with 9 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
- noun. 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.
- noun. A contract by which one employs another to manage any business for him. By the Roman law, it must have been gratuitous.
- noun. the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory
- noun. a document giving an official instruction or command
- noun. a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves
- verb. assign authority to
- verb. make mandatory
"the new director of the school board mandated regular tests"
- verb. assign under a mandate
"mandate a colony"
Synonyms
authorisation, authorization, mandatory
Common word forms
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