Breach vs. Mandate — What's the Difference?

An opening, tear, or rupture.

An authoritative command or instruction.

A gap or rift, especially in a solid structure such as a dike or fortification.

A command or authorization given by a political electorate to the winner of an election.

A violation or infraction, as of a contract, law, legal obligation, or promise.

A commission from the League of Nations authorizing a member nation to administer a territory.

A breaking up or disruption of friendly relations; an estrangement.

A region under such administration.

A leap of a whale from the water.

(Law) The specific directive issued by a reviewing court to a lower court, as in requiring the lower court to enter a new judgment or to conduct further proceedings consistent with the reviewing court's ruling.

The breaking of waves or surf.

To assign (a colony or territory) to a specified nation under a mandate of the League of Nations.

To make a hole or gap in; break through.

To make mandatory, as by law; decree or require

To break or violate (an agreement, for example).

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

To leap from the water

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

To develop a hole or opening. Used especially of protective embankments

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

A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence

(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.

A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.

(historical) Such a territory.

A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves

(uncommon) man date: a date between two men.

A breaking out upon; an assault.

To authorize.

(archaic) A bruise; a wound.

To make mandatory.

(archaic) A hernia; a rupture.

An official or authoritative command, order, or authorization from a superior official to a subordinate; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.

(legal) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment

An authorization to carry out a specific public policy, given by the electorate to their representatives; - it is considered to be implied by the election of a candidate by a significant margin after that candidate has campaigned with that policy as a prominent element of the campaign platform.

(figurative) A difference in opinions, social class etc.

Authorization by a multinational body to a nation to administer the government and affairs of a territory, usually a former colony; as, termination of the British mandate in Palestine.

The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

A rescript of the pope, commanding an ordinary collator to put the person therein named in possession of the first vacant benefice in his collation.

(transitive) To make a breach in.

A contract by which one employs another to manage any business for him. By the Roman law, it must have been gratuitous.

(transitive) To violate or break.

A document giving an official instruction or command

To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.

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

To leap out of the water.

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

To charge or convict (someone) of breaching the terms of a bail, probation, recognizance, etc.

Assign under a mandate;

The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

Make mandatory;

Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise.

Assign authority to

A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture.

A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.

A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.

A bruise; a wound.

A hernia; a rupture.

A breaking out upon; an assault.

To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.

To break the water, as by leaping out; - said of a whale.

A failure to perform some promised act or obligation

An opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)

A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions);

Act in disregard of laws and rules;

Make an opening or gap in