mandate

1. 1.

   assign under a mandate

   “mandate a colony”

   Broaderdelegate
2. 2.

   make mandatory

   “the new director of the school board mandated regular tests”

   Broaderorder
3. 3.

   assign authority to

   Broaderdelegate

Other forms of mandate

plural

mandates·

past tense

mandated·

present participle

mandating·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mandate

What does mandate mean?

mandate means "a document giving an official instruction or command". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mandate?

mandate has 2 syllables: man-date. The stress falls on "man". In IPA it is /ˈmænˌdeɪt/.

What is another word for mandate?

Close synonyms include authorization, authorisation, mandatory. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mandate a common word?

mandate is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with mandate?

14 words rhyme with mandate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.