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mandated
[ man-dey-tid ]
adjective
- authorized or decreed, as by the passing of a law:
Federal agencies are making preparations to manage the mandated spending cuts.
- ordered or required; made mandatory:
There were not enough faculty to teach the mandated core curriculum.
- 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.
- (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
- the simple past tense and past participle of mandate ( def ).
Other 51Թ Forms
- ܲ··岹· adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of mandated1
Example Sentences
Since the funds are mandated by Congress, the suit argues that Trump can’t just slash them on his own.
The report, mandated by Congress, is prepared every four years under a 1990 law.
Agency for International Development and the Voice of America that are congressionally mandated and appropriated, without any coordination with Capitol Hill.
Congressional action requires the Department of Health and Human Services to maintain Head Start at its current funding and staffing levels and ensure current capacity as mandated by the Head Start Act, the suit said.
“The U.S. Department of Education is unapologetically abandoning its mission to ensure equal access to education with its latest threat to wholesale terminate congressionally mandated federal education funding,” Bonta said in a statement.
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