mandateとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæn.deɪt/

名詞

mandate (複数形 mandates)

1. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
   • 2017 March 27, “The Observer view on triggering article 50”, in The Observer‎^[1]:

     Instead, May, more sheep than shepherd, has feebly allowed herself to be driven ever further towards an extreme, inflexible, take-it-or-leave-it stance for which she has neither mandate nor credible grounds.

2. (politics) The authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.
   • 2002, Leroy G. Dorsey, The Presidency and Rhetorical Leadership, Texas A&M University Press (ISBN 9781603444439), page 30

     John Tyler and James K. Polk both regarded the election results as a mandate for the annexation of Texas.

動詞

mandate (三人称単数 現在形 mandates, 現在分詞 mandating, 過去形および過去分詞形 mandated)

1. to authorize
2. to make mandatory

派生語

• mandatary
• mandator
• mandatory

Further reading

• mandate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• mandate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Latin

Participle

mandāte

1. vocative masculine singular of mandātus

語源

man ‎(“adult male”) +‎ date ‎(“meeting with a romantic partner”)

名詞

man date ‎(複数形 man dates)

1. (colloquial) A platonic outing by two (typically straight) men, often in settings that would otherwise be reserved for romantic encounters.
   • 2005 April 10, Jennifer 8. Lee, “The Man Date”^[1], The New York Times:

     Anyone who finds a date with a potential romantic partner to be a minefield of unspoken rules should consider the man date, a rendezvous between two straight men that is even more socially perilous.

   • 2010, Jason Day and Aaron Chronister, BBQ Makes Everything Better, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 9781439168301, page 17:

     We were set up on a man date, and the next thing you know we were cooking for our first competition!

   • 2011, Tod Goldberg, The Bad Beat, Penguin, ISBN 9780451234094, page 62:

     Just three buddies having a Sunday afternoon man date at a faux dive bar.