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Nominate vs Mandate - What's the difference?

nominate | mandate |

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

English

Verb

(nominat)
  • 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)
  • Synonyms

    * (l)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (zoology) nominotypical
  • the nominate subspecies

    Anagrams

    * ----

    mandate

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
  • Verb

    (mandat)
  • to authorize
  • to make mandatory
  • Derived terms

    * mandatary * mandator * mandatory