Mandate vs Calling - What's the difference?
mandate | calling |
An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
to authorize
to make mandatory
A strong urge to become religious.
A job or occupation.
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As verbs the difference between mandate and calling
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a strong urge to become religious.mandate
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(wikipedia mandate)Noun
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* mandatary * mandator * mandatoryExternal links
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(en noun)Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling , if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}