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Antonyms for mandate
ˈmæn deɪtman·date

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English Synonyms and Antonyms3.2 / 5 votes

  1. mandate

    Law, in its ideal, is the statement of a principle of right in mandatory form, by competent authority, with adequate penalty for disobedience; in common use, the term is applied to any legislative act, however imperfect or unjust. Command and commandment are personal and particular; as, the commands of a parent; the ten commandments. An edict is the act of an absolute sovereign or other authority; we speak of the edict of an emperor, the decree of a court. A mandate is specific, for an occasion or a purpose; a superior court issues its mandate to an inferior court to send up its records. Statute is the recognized legal term for a specific law; enactment is the more vague and general expression. We speak of algebraic or chemical formulas, municipal ordinances, military orders, army regulations, ecclesiastical canons, the rules of a business house. Law is often used, also, for a recognized principle, whose violation is attended with injury or loss that acts like a penalty; as, the laws of business; the laws of nature. In more strictly scientific use, a natural law is simply a recognized system of sequences or relations; as, Kepler's laws of planetary distances. A code is a system of laws; jurisprudence is the science of law, or a system of laws scientifically considered, classed, and interpreted; legislation, primarily the act of legislating, denotes also the body of statutes enacted by a legislative body. An economy (Greek oikonomia, primarily the management of a house) is any comprehensive system of administration; as, domestic economy; but the word is extended to the administration or government of a state or people, signifying a body of laws and regulations, with the entire system, political or religious, especially the latter, of which they form a part; as, the code of Draco, Roman jurisprudence, British legislation, the Mosaic economy. Law is also used as a collective noun for a system of laws or recognized rules or regulations, including not only all special laws, but the principles on which they are based. The Mosaic economy is known also as the Mosaic law, and we speak of the English common law, or the law of nations. Polity (Greek politeia, from polis, a city) signifies the form, constitution, or method of government of a nation, state, church, or other institution; in usage it differs from economy as applying rather to the system, while economy applies especially to method, or to the system as administered; an economy might be termed a polity considered with especial reference to its practical administration, hence commonly with special reference to details or particulars, while polity has more reference to broad principles.

    Synonyms:
    canon, code, command, commandment, decree, economy, edict, enactment, formula, jurisprudence, law, legislation, order, ordinance, polity, principle, regulation, rule, statute

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms4.5 / 2 votes

  1. mandate

    Antonyms:
    suggestion, petition, request, entreaty

    Synonyms:
    command, edict, order, bidding, injunction, behest, rule, precept

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Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  1. mandate, authorization, authorisationnoun

    a document giving an official instruction or command

    Synonyms:
    potency, dominance, empowerment, sanction, authority, say-so, authorisation, authorization, mandatory

  2. mandate, mandatorynoun

    a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves

    Synonyms:
    mandatary, authorization, mandatory, authorisation

  3. mandateverb

    the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory

    Synonyms:
    authorization, mandatory, authorisation

  4. mandateverb

    assign under a mandate

    "mandate a colony"

  5. mandateverb

    make mandatory

    "the new director of the school board mandated regular tests"

  6. mandateverb

    assign authority to

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. mandatenoun

    Synonyms:
    command, edict, order, injunction, precept

How to use mandate in a sentence?

  1. Austrian Defence Minister Gerald:

    Nothing will happen without a U.N. mandate.

  2. Riek Machar:

    Instead of negotiating a resolution to the conflict, it has subverted democracy and unilaterally extended its mandate.

  3. Jim Desmond:

    Small businesses have already suffered greatly, and being forced to mandate these rules would be impossible for many, government should stay out of the way when it comes to telling business owners how to operate.

  4. Renato Meirelles:

    It would be an error for the new government to think that they are somehow representative of Brazil, this is a placeholder government that doesn't have anything close to a broad popular mandate.

  5. Mutha Ashok Jain:

    The case is about drugs... it is not our mandate to look into the suicide, the investigation is progressing and as we go along we will try to do some more work and look at the entire network.

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#5368petition
#6151suggestion
#9882mandate
#134925entreaty

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