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Suggestion vs Mandate - What's the difference?

suggestion | mandate |

As nouns the difference between suggestion and mandate

is that suggestion is something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for while mandate is an official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.

As a verb mandate is

to authorize.

suggestion

Noun

  • (countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for )
  • I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit.
    Traffic signs seem to be more of a suggestion than an order.
  • (uncountable) The act of suggesting.
  • Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.
  • (countable, psychology) Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
  • He's somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.

    Synonyms

    * (something suggested) proposal * See also

    Derived terms

    * autosuggestion * hypnotic suggestion * power of suggestion * suggestion box

    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