MANDATES Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of mandate

as in accreditations

the granting of power to perform various acts or duties the committee has been given a mandate to reform the process for admitting applicants to the university

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verb

present tense third-person singular of mandate

as in orders

to request the doing of by virtue of one's authority the president of the sports league has mandated drug testing for all active members

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Noun

The project resonates with a vague but broadly felt frustration with urban life, exacerbated by return-to-office mandates and cost-of-living hikes. — Pablo Larios, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026 University of Pittsburgh researchers studied RTO mandates at big public companies and found no gain in financial performance — just a drop in employee satisfaction. — Lori Janke, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026 But the existing law relies on schools and teachers to follow the mandates without clear penalties for those who fail to do so. — Holly McDede, ProPublica, 31 Aug. 2026 Countries like Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea are rapidly enacting stablecoin legislation, driven by government mandates to leverage these digital assets for local currency benefits and cost efficiencies. — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026 California Senate Bill 646 mandates that specific levels of arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury must be published openly on each brand’s website while packages and advertisements must clearly state how heavy metal testing is done. — Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026 As the fiscal reality of these mandates settles in communities across the state, the scramble of local governments to avoid cutting both core and beloved school programs like Outdoor School will become even more frantic. — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 27 Aug. 2026 There’s been a sharp uptick in the number of kindergarteners deemed exempt from such mandates; in some states, more than one in every eight remains unvaccinated against a preventable disease. — Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2026 Lawmakers this year never took up Ladapo’s call to remove those mandates. — Miami Herald, 24 Aug. 2026

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Timothy is charged with murder — an offense that typically mandates a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole — therefore the judge is required to hold a Miller hearing before sentencing in the case. — Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026 One is a 170-page bill that significantly changes juvenile justice procedures, mandates the amount of time served until someone becomes eligible for parole and allows counties to raise a 1% sales tax to fund a juvenile detention center. — Jack Harvel august 26, Kansas City Star, 26 Aug. 2026 Illinois is one of only a handful of states that mandates screening for postpartum depression, Tandon said. — Dana Kozlov, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026 The new rule mandates notification before marketing, aiming to provide the FDA with crucial information. — Jesse M. Pines, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026 But this week, UFT President Michael Mulgrew threatened to yank his support, critiquing not the curriculum mandates themselves, but contradictory supplements and paperwork. — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026 The results validate Bradfield City’s Master Plan policy, which mandates green or biosolar setups on 80 percent of suitable new rooftops across Australia’s first new city in a century. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026 The order will advise states with school vaccine mandates to consider updating their laws to reflect the administration’s recommendations, the fact sheet said. — Ali Swenson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026 In China's upstart labs, the ruling party mandates heavy use of domestic chips, and the growth of models like DeepSeek and Kimi K3 suggests that optimizing for domestic hardware may be the best solution. — Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 5 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for mandates

Noun

This year’s 2,140 industry accreditations were up 10 percent from last year’s 1,940.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 15 Aug. 2026
The achievement is significant because TEMOS has been conducting healthcare accreditations since 2010 across multiple countries and medical specialties.

— Ascend Agency, Mercury News, 13 July 2026

Definition of accreditations

Verb

Sampson orders Springfield, his security man, to find that same chemist Reacher is seeking and thus to find Reacher.

— Chris Klimek, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2026
But some orders commissioning justices of the peace, though signed by Adams and sealed by his Secretary of State, went undelivered.

— Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of orders

Noun

Without work authorizations and the ability to drive, many have chosen for now, to remain home behind closed doors.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 Aug. 2026
The transaction would also require SEC review, shareholder approval and other company authorizations, while its timing will depend on market conditions.

— Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of authorizations

Verb

Proton Mail, acting as a proxy, requests the image and caches it on its own servers.

— Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 24 Aug. 2026
The person asked for gas money and Bitcoin, requests the family found suspicious because Goods doesn't drive and didn't have a car in Las Vegas.

— Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of requests

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According to materials provided to CNBC, Google has also directly targeted Microsoft and Anthropic, claiming their recurring seat fees and separate product licenses make their offerings more expensive and less flexible.

— MacKenzie Sigalos,Drew Troast, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026
Over a span of 24 hours, Krebs said the number of driver’s licenses listed as available grew by almost 400,000.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of licenses

Noun

Staff intend to solicit feedback from city commissions and the public throughout the year so the council can make a decision by fall 2027.

— Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2026
Frequently subjected to repression and censorship, some of them were excluded from the Association of Visual Artists and thus denied access to state funding, exhibition opportunities, commissions, and official recognition as professional artists.

— Elisa R. Linn, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026

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