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mandated
[ man-dey-tid ]
adjective
- authorized or decreed, as by the passing of a law:
Federal agencies are making preparations to manage the mandated spending cuts.
- ordered or required; made mandatory:
There were not enough faculty to teach the mandated core curriculum.
- operating under a mandate or obligation, as an elected government, a person to whom a certain law or regulation applies, etc.:
After a record voter turnout, it will be interesting to see how this heavily mandated government performs.
All first responders have been added to the list of mandated reporters of elder abuse.
- (of a territory, colony, etc.) consigned to the charge of a particular nation under a mandate:
Following World War I, the 1919 Peace Conference gave the losers' overseas territories to the victors as “mandated territories.”
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of mandate ( def ).
Other Word Forms
- ܲ··岹· adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of mandated1
Example Sentences
“The U.S. Department of Education is unapologetically abandoning its mission to ensure equal access to education with its latest threat to wholesale terminate congressionally mandated federal education funding,” Bonta said in a statement.
His experience highlights some of the frustrations people have had using cryptocurrency where many of the customer safeguards which underpin standard online banking transactions, some mandated by law, do not apply.
The closest the Constitution comes is in Article II, Section 3, where it is mandated that “the president shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.”
But the agreement means it is now the first industry in the world with internationally mandated targets to reduce emissions.
Our constitutionally mandated job is to hold truth to power.
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