mandated

[man-dey-tid]

adjective

1. authorized or decreed, as by the passing of a law.

   Federal agencies are making preparations to manage the mandated spending cuts.

2. ordered or required; made mandatory.

   There were not enough faculty to teach the mandated core curriculum.

3. 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.

4. (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

1. the simple past tense and past participle of mandate.

Other Word Forms

• unmandated adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of mandated¹

mandate ( def. ) + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Only five narrow exceptions qualify: those protecting life and property, those necessary to the president’s constitutional duties, those performing legally mandated activities, those with funding outside the annual budget, and those authorized by other laws.

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Its mandated climate disclosures violate the First Amendment.

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Chamber of Commerce and other business groups argues that the mandated climate disclosures violate the First Amendment by compelling business to speak on an intensely controversial subject.

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It would also increase France’s deficit, which hit 5.8% last year, nearly double the European Union’s mandated limit of 3% of economic output.

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That includes a program that handles preliminary disaster assessments, which are congressionally mandated and form the basis of a federal disaster declaration.

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Related Words

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• authorized 
• charged 
• decreed www.thesaurus.com
• ordered