0 past simple and past participle of mandate
1 to give official permission for something to happen:
The UN rush to mandate war totally ruled out any alternatives.
2 to order someone to do something:
[ + to infinitive ] Our delegates have been mandated to vote against the proposal at the conference.
Although that interpretation may be suggested and even encouraged, it is not mandated.
Without nationally mandated standards, state politicians have incentives to restrict eligibility and benefit levels.
Democratic princes can energetically pursue public policies-whether in security, trade, technology, or welfare-because they feel, and to a degree are, mandated so to do.
On one journey he mandated that everything that was not absolutely essential be discarded.
This indicates a distinction between a spending increment mandated under existing law and a spending increment that goes beyond the requirments of existing law.
The administration argued that constitutionally mandated spending severely limited the executive's powers.
With this law, expensive devices were mandated to be subject to hospital planning.
Thus, the actual oath of office sworn by the new president is a significant constitutionally mandated gateway.
