How to pronounce “mandate”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.
• (politics) The order or authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.
• (Canada) A period during which a government is in power.
• (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.
• [Verb]
• 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. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
• (Scotland, especially Christianity) To repeat, rehearse sermons or speeches aloud.

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