mandate
Noun
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tells us about:
- authorised, authorized - endowed with authority
- unauthorised, unauthorized - not endowed with authority
referred to in: jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authorityis a type of: instrument, legal document, legal instrument, official document - (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some rightsame as: authorisation, authorization -
is a type of: district, dominion, territorial dominion, territory - a region marked off for administrative or other purposesspecific instances: palestine - a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948same as: mandatory
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referred to in: government, political science, politics - the study of government of states and other political unitsis a type of: commission, commissioning - the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions
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