Sanakirja.org

Määritelmät

Substantiivi

1. An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.
2. (uncommon) Alternative form of man date: a date between two men.
3. (politics) The order or authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.
4. (Canada) A period during which a government is in power.
5. (historical) An order by the League of Nations to a member nation to establish a government responsible for a conquered territory, as the colonies of Germany after World War I.
6. (historical) Such a territory.

Verbi

1. To (officially) require someone to do something or act in a certain way, to give them the authority to do so; to command.
2. To make mandatory.
3. To administer or assign a territory to a nation under a mandate.
4. (Scotland, especially Christianity) To repeat, rehearse sermons or speeches aloud.