Nominate vs Mandate - What's the difference?
nominate | mandate |
To name someone as a candidate for a particular role or position, including that of an office.
(obsolete) To entitle, confer a name upon.
* 1658': the City of ''Norwich'' [...] was enlarged, builded and '''nominated by the ''Saxons''. — Sir Thomas Browne, ''Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 12)
(zoology) nominotypical
An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
to authorize
to make mandatory
As verbs the difference between nominate and mandate
is that nominate is to name someone as a candidate for a particular role or position, including that of an office while mandate is .As an adjective nominate
is (zoology) nominotypical.nominate
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* (l)Adjective
(-)- the nominate subspecies