mandat

See also: Mandat, mandát, and mandât

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /mənˈdat/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /manˈdat/
• Rhymes: -at

Noun

mandat m (plural mandats)

1. mandate

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mandātum, from mandō (“put in one's hands, command”), from Proto-Indo-European *man- (“hand”) + *dʰeh₁- (“put”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃.da/

• audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: man‧dat

Noun

mandat m (plural mandats)

1. mandate
2. postal order, money order
3. (law) power of attorney, proxy
4. (police) warrant
5. term in office

Further reading

• “mandat” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• damant, damnât

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Ladin

Noun

mandat m (plural mandac)

1. mandate

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Latin

Verb

mandat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of mandō

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈman.dat/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

mandat m inan

1. ticket, fine; document prepared by the police compelling the recipient to pay a fine for a misdemeanor or a traffic violation

   Właśnie dostałem mandat za złe parkowanie.

   I've just received a bad parking ticket.

2. (politics) seat; membership in an elected representative body, such as the parliament

   W ostatnich wyborach nasza partia zdobyła dwadzieścia mandatów.

   In the last election our party won twenty seats.

3. (politics, rare, singular only) mandate; authority granted by the electorate

   Rząd otrzymał silny mandat do zreformowania systemu opieki zdrowotnej.

   The government received a strong mandate to reform the healthcare system.

Declension

declension of mandat

	singular	plural
nominative	mandat	mandaty
genitive	mandatu	mandatów
dative	mandatowi	mandatom
accusative	mandat	mandaty
instrumental	mandatem	mandatami
locative	mandacie	mandatach
vocative	mandacie	mandaty

Further reading

• mandat in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mǎndaːt/
• Hyphenation: man‧dat

Noun

màndāt m (Cyrillic spelling ма̀нда̄т)

1. mandate
2. term (of office)

Declension

Declension of mandat

	singular	plural
nominative	màndāt	mandati
genitive	mandáta	mandata
dative	mandatu	mandatima
accusative	mandat	mandate
vocative	mandate	mandati
locative	mandatu	mandatima
instrumental	mandatom	mandatima

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Swedish

Noun

mandat n

1. mandate

Declension

Declension of mandat
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	mandat	mandatet	mandat	mandaten
Genitive	mandats	mandatets	mandats	mandatens