Recommend vs Mandate - What's the difference?
recommend | mandate |
To bestow commendation on; to represent favourably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.
To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
To advise, propose, counsel favorably
(archaic) To commit, confide to another's care, confidence or acceptance, with favoring representations
An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
to authorize
to make mandatory
As verbs the difference between recommend and mandate
is that recommend is to bestow commendation on; to represent favourably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice while mandate is .recommend
English
Verb
(en verb)- The board recommends Philips, given his ample experience in similar positions.
- The therapist recommends resting the mind and exercising the body.
- ''A medieval oblate's parents recommended the boy for life to God and the monastery