English Dictionary

mandate

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈmændeɪt/

名詞

カナダ英語 歴史的

An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.

日本語の意味

権威ある命令 / 公的な指示または命令 / 委任や委嘱 / 司法上の命令（裁判所の決定に基づく命令） / 公的な許可または認可

City council members debated the mandate for weeks before finally voting to enforce it.

市議会議員らは、その公式の命令について数週間議論した後、最終的にそれを施行することに賛成票を投じた。

意味（1）

An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.

Instead, May, more sheep than shepherd, has feebly allowed herself to be driven ever further towards an extreme, inflexible, take-it-or-leave-it stance for which she has neither mandate nor credible grounds.

意味（2）

(politics) The order or authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.

John Tyler and James K. Polk both regarded the election results as a mandate for the annexation of Texas.

意味（3）

(Canada) A period during which a government is in power.

Throughout his last mandate, from 1980 to 1984, Mr. Trudeau insisted that we see ourselves solely as Canadians, that we set aside the historic compromises that underlie Canada as a federation.

意味（4）

(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.

意味（5）

(historical) Such a territory.

mandates （ plural ）