Encourage vs Mandate - What's the difference?
encourage | mandate |
To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
To spur on, strongly recommend.
To foster, give help or patronage
An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
to authorize
to make mandatory
As verbs the difference between encourage and mandate
is that encourage is while mandate is .encourage
English
Verb
(encourag)- I encouraged him during his race.
- We encourage the use of bicycles in the town centre.
- ''The royal family has always encouraged the arts in word and deed