Mandate vs. Mundane

Mandate vs. Mundane — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Mandate and Mundane

Mandatenoun

An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.

Mundaneadjective

Worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly.

Mandatenoun

(politics) The authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.

Mundaneadjective

Pertaining to the Universe, cosmos or physical reality, as opposed to the spiritual world.

Mandatenoun

A papal rescript.

Mundaneadjective

Ordinary; not new.

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Mandatenoun

(Canada) A period during which a government is in power.

Mundaneadjective

Tedious; repetitive and boring.

Mandateverb

to authorize

Mundanenoun

An unremarkable, ordinary human being.

Mandateverb

to make mandatory

Mundanenoun

A person considered to be "normal", part of the mainstream culture, outside the subculture, not part of the elite group.

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Mandatenoun

a document giving an official instruction or command

Mundanenoun

(fandom slang) The world outside fandom; the normal, mainstream world.

Mandatenoun

a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they ar able to stand by themselves

Mundaneadjective

found in the ordinary course of events;

a placid everyday sceneit was a routine daythere's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute

Mandatenoun

the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory

Mundaneadjective

concerned with the world or worldly matters;

mundane affairshe developed an immense terrestrial practicality

Mandateverb

assign under a mandate;

mandate a colony

Mundaneadjective

belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly;

not a fairy palace; yet a mundane wonder of unimagined kindso terrene a being as himself

Mandateverb

make mandatory;

the new director of the schoolbaord mandated regular tests

Mandateverb

assign authority to