as in accreditation
the granting of power to perform various acts or duties
the committee has been given a mandate to reform the process for admitting applicants to the university
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to request the doing of by virtue of one's authority
the president of the sports league has mandated drug testing for all active members
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Recent Examples of mandate
Kate Gibson, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2025
The term has been applied to other groups as well: Teachers, health care workers, government officials and public safety professionals may encounter mandates that threaten to compromise their values, witness morally repugnant behavior or become a victim of somebody else’s transgression.
—Christina Caron, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Eliza Shapiro, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
That proposal would limit premium increases for certain policies, create a tax credit for consumers with these plans, require prospective buyers to be notified about the risk of rate increases, and mandate that a public hearing be held when rate hike requests exceed 10%, among other changes.
—Jenna Carlesso, Hartford Courant, 21 Feb. 2025
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Noun
In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, the trade group Airlines for America and five carriers — American, Delta, JetBlue, Southwest and United — argue that the mandate put in place last year by the Biden administration is unlawful.
—Kate Gibson, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2025
The term has been applied to other groups as well: Teachers, health care workers, government officials and public safety professionals may encounter mandates that threaten to compromise their values, witness morally repugnant behavior or become a victim of somebody else’s transgression.
—Christina Caron, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Verb
That’s partially because of the long and tangled process that the state created to penalize schools found to be breaking the law, which mandates that all children receive an adequate secular education, even in private schools.
—Eliza Shapiro, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
That proposal would limit premium increases for certain policies, create a tax credit for consumers with these plans, require prospective buyers to be notified about the risk of rate increases, and mandate that a public hearing be held when rate hike requests exceed 10%, among other changes.
—Jenna Carlesso, Hartford Courant, 21 Feb. 2025
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Verb
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In the courtroom, Judge Gregory Carro ordered that Mangione remain cuffed during the hearing, citing security reasons.—
Samira Asma-Sadeque,
People.com,
22 Feb. 2025
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Trump previously ordered the US to declare cartels terrorist groups in a January 20 executive order, but until US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s official announcement on Thursday, none of the cartels had been specifically named.—
Max Saltman,
CNN,
22 Feb. 2025
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The ruling is another setback for one of President Donald Trump’s top priorities to strengthen immigration enforcement and conduct mass deportations of migrants who are in the country without legal authorization.—
Bart Jansen,
USA TODAY,
24 Feb. 2025
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And support for Ukraine from the U.S. and Europe accelerated, including an authorization to use long-range American weapons to strike militarily strategic targets within Russia.—
Kevin Shalvey,
ABC News,
24 Feb. 2025
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Now the homeowner is requesting permission from the local council, to rezone the historic property as three houses and a cottage.—
Madeline Fitzgerald,
Quartz,
18 Feb. 2025
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Police said the suspect, later identified as Onyx Calderon, showed up at the store on Jan. 29 and requested to see the rare bird, so the owner brought the parrot out in a smaller cage for his viewing purposes.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
18 Feb. 2025
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“Mandate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mandate. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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