Synonyms:
mandate, authorization, authorisation
Meaning: a document giving an official instruction or command
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
mandate
Meaning: assign under a mandate; "mandate a colony"
Usage examples
Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed.
When they read in their newspapers and magazines that the style is so-and-so, they never question the matter, but at once obey the mandate of fashion.
The generous nature of Safie was outraged by this command; she attempted to expostulate with her father, but he left her angrily, reiterating his tyrannical mandate.
No treasury mandate armed with the signatures of all the government has half the power of one of those broad sheets, which fly forth from hence so abundantly, armed with no signature at all.
He had not served this mandate on himself; he had not taken it; it had been offered to him, and he had accepted it; convinced, wrongly, to be sure, but convinced nevertheless, that the offer was in accordance with right and that the acceptance of it was in accordance with duty.