mandate
B1CEFR level
35/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
An official instruction or requirement to carry out a particular task.
The trust's mandate required every discharge summary to be sent within twenty-four hours.
Law noun
The authority conferred on directors or agents to act on the company's behalf.
The board exceeded its mandate by committing the company to an unrelated venture.
Business noun
Official authority to act, or an instruction to do so.
The board gave her a clear mandate to restructure.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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