| 单词 | mandate |
| 释义 | Word Frequency mandatenoun (ˈmændeɪt, -dɪt) 1. an official or authoritative instruction or command 2. politics the support or commission given to a government and its policies or an elected representative and his or her policies through an electoral victory 3. Also called: mandated territory (often capital) (formerly) any of the territories under the trusteeship of the League of Nations administered by one of its member states 4. a. Roman law a contract by which one person commissions another to act for him or her gratuitously and theother accepts the commission b. contract law a contract of bailment under which the party entrusted with goods undertakes to perform gratuitously some service in respect of such goods c. Scots law a contract by which a person is engaged to act in the management of the affairs of another verb (ˈmændeɪt) (transitive) 5. international law to assign (territory) to a nation under a mandate 6. to delegate authority to 7. obsolete to give a command to Derived forms mandator (ˈmanˌdator) noun Word origin C16: from Latin mandātum something commanded, from mandāre to command, perhaps from manus hand + dāre to give |
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