Usually means: Official order to perform task.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. mandate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. mandate, mandate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mandate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mandate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mandate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mandate, mandate: Wordnik
  7. mandate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. mandate: Wiktionary
  9. mandate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mandate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mandate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. mandate: Dictionary.com
  13. mandate (n.), mandate (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. mandate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Mandate (criminal law), Mandate (international law), Mandate (magazine), Mandate (politics), Mandate (trade union), Mandate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Mandate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. mandate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. mandate: Rhymezone
  19. mandate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. mandate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. mandate: Free Dictionary
  22. mandate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. mandate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. mandate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. mandate: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. mandate: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. mandate: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. Mandate: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  10. mandate: Finance-Glossary.com
  11. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  12. Mandate (law), mandate: Legal dictionary
  13. Mandate: Financial dictionary
  14. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mandate (law), mandate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. mandate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mandate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.
noun:  (politics) The order or authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.
noun:  (Canada) A period during which a government is in power.
noun:  (historical) An order by the League of Nations to a member nation to establish a government responsible for a conquered territory, as the colonies of Germany after World War I.
noun:  (historical) Such a territory.
verb:  To authorize.
verb:  To make mandatory.
noun:  (uncommon) Alternative form of man date: a date between two men. [(colloquial) A platonic outing by two (typically straight) men, often in settings that would otherwise be reserved for romantic encounters.]

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