All mandate synonyms
manΒ·date
M m noun mandate
- authority β The authorities are the people who have the power to make decisions and to make sure that laws are obeyed.
- decree β A decree is an official order or decision, especially one made by the ruler of a country.
- injunction β Law. a judicial process or order requiring the person or persons to whom it is directed to do a particular act or to refrain from doing a particular act.
- directive β serving to direct; directing: a directive board.
- instruction β machine instruction
- command β If someone in authority commands you to do something, they tell you that you must do it.
- sanction β authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- authorization β an authorizing or being authorized
- edict β a decree issued by a sovereign or other authority. Synonyms: dictum, pronouncement.
- fiat β an authoritative decree, sanction, or order: a royal fiat. Synonyms: authorization, directive, ruling, mandate, diktat, ukase.
- word β Microsoft Word
- go-ahead β permission or a signal to proceed: They got the go-ahead on the construction work.
- behest β an authoritative order or earnest request
- precept β a commandment or direction given as a rule of action or conduct.
- commission β If you commission something or commission someone to do something, you formally arrange for someone to do a piece of work for you.
- charge β If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.
- imperative β imperative language
- bidding β an order; command (often in the phrases do or follow the bidding of, at someone's bidding)
- dictate β If you dictate something, you say or read it aloud for someone else to write down.
- okay β to put one's endorsement on or indicate one's approval of (a request, piece of copy, bank check, etc.); authorize; initial: Would you OK my application?
- warrant β authorization, sanction, or justification.
- blank check β If someone is given a blank check, they are given the authority to spend as much money as they need or want.
- carte blanche β If someone gives you carte blanche, they give you the authority to do whatever you think is right.
- order β an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- obligation β something by which a person is bound or obliged to do certain things, and which arises out of a sense of duty or results from custom, law, etc.
- permission β authorization granted to do something; formal consent: to ask permission to leave the room.
- consent β If you give your consent to something, you give someone permission to do it.
- support β to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- reign β the period during which a sovereign occupies the throne.
- tenure β the holding or possessing of anything: the tenure of an office.
- stay β (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
verb mandate
- instruct β to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
- authorize β If someone in a position of authority authorizes something, they give their official permission for it to happen.
- authorise β to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- direct β to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
- delegate β A delegate is a person who is chosen to vote or make decisions on behalf of a group of other people, especially at a conference or a meeting.
- assign β If you assign a piece of work to someone, you give them the work to do.
- require β to have need of; need: He requires medical care.