Mandate vs. Obligation

Mandatenoun

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

Mandatenoun

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

Mandatenoun

A papal rescript.

Mandatenoun

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

Mandateverb

to authorize

Mandateverb

to make mandatory

Mandatenoun

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

Mandatenoun

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.

Mandatenoun

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.

Mandatenoun

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.

Mandatenoun

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

Mandatenoun

a document giving an official instruction or command

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

Mandatenoun

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

Mandateverb

assign under a mandate;

Mandateverb

make mandatory;

Mandateverb

assign authority to

Obligationnoun

The act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone.

Obligationnoun

A social, legal, or moral requirement, duty, contract, or promise that compels someone to follow or avoid a particular course of action.

Obligationnoun

A course of action imposed by society, law, or conscience by which someone is bound or restricted.

Obligationnoun

(legal) A legal agreement stipulating a specified payment or action; the document containing such agreement.

Obligationnoun

The act of obligating.

Obligationnoun

That which obligates or constrains; the binding power of a promise, contract, oath, or vow, or of law; that which constitutes legal or moral duty.

Obligationnoun

Any act by which a person becomes bound to do something to or for another, or to forbear something; external duties imposed by law, promise, or contract, by the relations of society, or by courtesy, kindness, etc.

Obligationnoun

The state of being obligated or bound; the state of being indebted for an act of favor or kindness; - often used with under to indicate being in that state; as, to place others under obligations to one.

Obligationnoun

A bond with a condition annexed, and a penalty for nonfulfillment. In a larger sense, it is an acknowledgment of a duty to pay a certain sum or do a certain things.

Obligationnoun

the social force that binds you to your obligations and the courses of action demanded by that force;

Obligationnoun

the state of being obligated to do or pay something;

Obligationnoun

a personal relation in which one is indebted for a service or favor

Obligationnoun

a legal agreement specifying a payment or action and the penalty for failure to comply

Obligation

An obligation is a course of action that someone is required to take, whether legal or moral. Obligations are constraints; they limit freedom.