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mandate (s) (noun), mandates (pl)
1. An authoritative order, instruction, or command to do something by law: The mandate of the governor of the state required more roads to be built.

Citizens of the town were told that work on repairing the bridge would start as soon as an official mandate was received by the contractors.

2. A command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative: The President had a clear mandate to end the war.
3. A command from a superior court or official to a lower one: The mandate from the judge required Gerald to appear at the local judiciary body next week.
4. Etymology: from Latin mandatum, "commission, order" and mandare, "to order, to commit to one's charge"; literally, "to give into one's hand"; probably from manus, "hand" + dare, "to give".
A command or a requirement.
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An authoritative demand.
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