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Delegation vs. Mandate — What's the Difference?

Delegation vs. Mandate — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Delegation and Mandate

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Delegation

Delegation is the assignment of authority to another person (normally from a manager to a subordinate) to carry out specific activities. It is the process of distributing and entrusting work to another person.

Mandate

An authoritative command or instruction.

Delegation

The act of delegating.

Mandate

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

Delegation

The condition of being delegated.
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Mandate

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

Delegation

A person or group of persons officially elected or appointed to represent another or others.

Mandate

A region under such administration.

Delegation

An act of delegating.

Mandate

(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.

Delegation

A group of delegates used to discuss issues with an opponent.

Mandate

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

Delegation

(computing) A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.

Mandate

To make mandatory, as by law; decree or require
Mandated desegregation of public schools.

Delegation

(legal)Law of obligations The act whereby or constellation in which the performance of an obligation (owed to an obligee, presuming its validity; irrespective of the obligation as the target of the delegation, rarely called delegatary) is assigned by its debtor (delegator, obligor) to and towards another party (delegatee, delegate)

Mandate

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

Delegation

The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates.

Mandate

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

Delegation

One or more persons appointed or chosen, and commissioned to represent others, as in a convention, in Congress, etc.; the collective body of delegates; as, the delegation from Massachusetts; a deputation.

Mandate

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

Delegation

A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him.

Mandate

(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.

Delegation

A group of representatives or delegates

Mandate

(historical) Such a territory.

Delegation

Authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions

Mandate

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

Mandate

To authorize.

Mandate

To make mandatory.

Mandate

An official or authoritative command, order, or authorization from a superior official to a subordinate; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
This dream all-powerful Juno; I bearHer mighty mandates, and her words you hear.

Mandate

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.

Mandate

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.

Mandate

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.

Mandate

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

Mandate

A document giving an official instruction or command

Mandate

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

Mandate

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

Mandate

Assign under a mandate;
Mandate a colony

Mandate

Make mandatory;
The new director of the schoolbaord mandated regular tests

Mandate

Assign authority to

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