mandate
/ˈmændeɪt/ verb C2- To (officially) require someone to do something or act in a certain way, to give them the authority to do so; to command.
- To make mandatory.
- To administer or assign a territory to a nation under a mandate.
He/she/it mandates · Past mandated · Past participle mandated · -ing form mandating
Verb forms
- Base form
- mandate
- He/she/it
- mandates
- Past
- mandated
- Past participle
- mandated
- -ing form
- mandating
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It is you who, sent by him to Constantinople, to treat with the emperor for the life or death of your benefactor, brought back a false mandate granting full pardon!
It is you who, with that mandate, obtained the pasha’s ring, which gave you authority over Selim, the fire-keeper!
And this time the tone and manner in which the command was given, betokened such growing hostility that the two young men perceived, for the first time, that the mandate was addressed to them.
The above-mentioned purchase was made on his highness’s account, whose mandate I had, for the sum of four hundred thousand francs.
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