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

Last year, BP ordered all staff to disclose intimate relationships at work and mandated that senior leaders disclose any office romances over the previous three years.

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The SEC in 1970 mandated quarterly reporting of financial information, after decades of allowing “periodic” disclosure.

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The most contested resource in nursing education is the mandated, hands-on clinical training.

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A trilogy bout had been mandated, but Taylor chose not to pursue it as she focuses on a break from boxing.

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India only granted citizenship to the first Sri Lankan Tamil in 2022 - K Nalini was born a year before the 1987 law that mandated Indian citizenship of at least one parent.

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Related Words

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• authorized 
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• decreed www.thesaurus.com
• ordered