Mandate vs Assign - What's the difference?
mandate | assign |
An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
to authorize
to make mandatory
(lb) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.
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(lb) To appoint or select someone for some office.
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(lb) To allot or give something as a task.
*(Robert Southey) (1774-1843)
*:The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned .
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*:He assigned to his men their several posts.
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*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
(lb) To attribute or sort something into categories.
To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.
To give (a value) to a variable.
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An assignee.
(obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between mandate and assign
is that mandate is an official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept while assign is an assignee.As verbs the difference between mandate and assign
is that mandate is to authorize while assign is to designate or set apart something for some purpose.mandate
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(wikipedia mandate)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(mandat)Derived terms
* mandatary * mandator * mandatoryExternal links
* * ----assign
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Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
* assignment * assignable * assignationNoun
(en noun)- Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns , as girdles, hangers, and so.
