Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person or nation receiving a mandate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One to whom a command or charge is given; one who has received and holds a mandate to act for another; an attorney.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One to whom a command or charge is given; hence, specifically, a person to whom the pope has, by his prerogative, given a mandate or order for his benefice.
- noun (Law) One who undertakes to discharge a specific business commission; a mandatory.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who receives a
mandate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the recipient of a mandate
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Examples
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They went for 3 or 4 thousand years, until they were conquered by the romans and the last mandatary (Cleopatra VII) suicided.
Think Progress » Sen. Kit Bond: Mowing Down Lawn Mower Reform 2006
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I remember — I think it was first — well it had to have been first grade because there wasn't mandatary kindergarten back then so my first year of school was first grade, not kindergarten.
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AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR, ACCORDING TO plans laid during it, France became the mandatary power, under the League of Nations, in what today is Syria and Lebanon.
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AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR, ACCORDING TO plans laid during it, France became the mandatary power, under the League of Nations, in what today is Syria and Lebanon.
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A _mandatary_, or one who undertakes to do an act for another without recompense, in respect to the thing bailed to him, is responsible for gross neglect, if he undertakes and does the work amiss; but it is thought that for agreeing to do, and not undertaking or doing at all, he is not liable for damage.
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The Popes mandatary came together with two great gentlemen of the Cardinals, and when four oclock of the night was passed, they removed me from my prison, and brought me into the presence of the Cardinal, who received me with indescribable kindness.
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 1910
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The Popes mandatary came together with two great gentlemen of the Cardinals, and when four oclock of the night was passed, they removed me from my prison, and brought me into the presence of the Cardinal, who received me with indescribable kindness.
CXXVII 1909
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[Sidenote: Abuses to be prohibited.] (b) Communities like those of Central Africa, to be administered by the mandatary under conditions generally approved by the members of the
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In every case the mandatary will render an annual report, and the degree of its authority will be defined.
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Islands, but administered under the laws of the mandatary as integral portions of its territory.
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