mandateとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

Noun

A map showing African mandates.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmændeɪt/

Verb

• IPA^(key): /ˈmændeɪt/, /mænˈdeɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt

名詞

mandate (複数形 mandates)

1. An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.
   • 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 order or 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), page 30

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

3. (Canada) A period during which a government is in power.
   • 2000 October 6, John Richards, “Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1919-2000”, in The Globe and Mail‎^[2]:

     Throughout his last mandate, from 1980 to 1984, Mr. Trudeau insisted that we see ourselves solely as Canadians, that we set aside the historic compromises that underlie Canada as a federation.

4. (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.
   1. (historical) Such a territory.

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. (Discuss⁽⁺⁾ this sense) To authorize.
2. To make mandatory.

派生語

語源

From 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.
   • 2022 April 10, Jennifer 8. Lee, “The Man Date”, in The New York Times‎^[t]:

     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.

   • 2007 September 7', Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 3:

     Moss: Oh, he's long gone, although Roy's got a man date with him.
     Roy: It is not a man date. I am not a man-woman. We are not married. I am not your wife!

   • 2010, Jason Day and Aaron Chronister, BBQ Makes Everything Better, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, 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, page 62:

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