Mandate vs Behest - What's the difference?
mandate | behest | Synonyms |
An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
to authorize
to make mandatory
A command, bidding; sometimes also, an authoritative request.
* 1977 , , Penguin Classics, p. 278:
* Sir Walter Scott
* 2007 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day :
* 2009 , “What a waste”, The Economist , 15 Oct 2009:
* 2011 , Owen Gibson, The Guardian , 24 Mar 2011:
A vow; a promise.
* Paston
As nouns the difference between mandate and behest
is that mandate is an official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept while behest is a command, bidding; sometimes also, an authoritative request.As verbs the difference between mandate and behest
is that mandate is to authorize while behest is to promise; vow.mandate
English
(wikipedia mandate)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(mandat)Derived terms
* mandatary * mandator * mandatoryExternal links
* * ----behest
English
Noun
(en noun)- Paul did not dare pronounce, let matters rest, / His master having given him no behest .
- to do his master's high behest
- And young Mr. Fleetwood Vibe was here at the behest of his father, Wall Street eminence Scarsdale Vibe, who was effectively bankrolling the Expedition.
- the House of Representatives will try to water down even this feeble effort at the behest of the unions whose members enjoy some of the most lavish policies.
- The Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, is to meet with the BBC director general, Mark Thompson, at the behest of the Premier League in a bid to resolve their long-running feud.
- The time is come that I should send it her, if I keep the behest that I have made.
