Synonyms of the word

mandate

• n. An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
• v. to authorize.
• v. to make mandatory.

assign

• v. (transitive) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.
• v. (transitive) To appoint or select someone for some office.
• v. (transitive) To allot or give something as a task.
• v. (transitive) To attribute or sort something into categories.
• v. (transitive, law) To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.
• v. (transitive, programming) To give (a value) to a variable.
• n. An assignee.
• n. (obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.

authorisation

• n. Alternative spelling of authorization.

authorization

• n. (uncountable) Permission.
• n. (countable) An act of authorizing.
• n. (countable) (A document giving) formal sanction, permission or warrant.
• n. (government) Permission, possibly limited, to spend funds for a specific budgetary purpose.

commission

• n. A sending or mission (to do or accomplish something).
• n. An official charge or authority to do something, often used of military officers.
• n. The thing to be done as agent for another.
• n. A body or group of people, officially tasked with carrying out a particular function.
• n. A fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction.
• n. The act of committing (e.g. a crime).
• v. (transitive) To send or officially charge someone or some group to do something.
• v. (transitive) To place an order for (often piece of art).
• v. (transitive) To put into active service.

commissioning

• v. present participle of commission.
• n. The process of assuring that all systems and components of a major piece of equipment, a process, a building…

delegate

• n. a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
• n. a representative at a conference, etc.
• n. (US) an appointed representative in some legislative bodies.
• n. (computing) a type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous…
• v. to authorize someone to be a delegate.
• v. to commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate.
• v. (computing, Internet) (of a subdomain) to give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else…

depute

• v. (obsolete) To assign (someone or something) to or for something.
• v. To delegate (a task etc.) to a subordinate.
• v. To deputize (someone), to appoint as deputy.
• v. To appoint; to assign; to choose.
• n. (Scotland) Deputy.

designate

• adj. Designated; appointed; chosen.
• v. To mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description;…
• v. To call by a distinctive title; to name.
• v. To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty; -- with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the…

dictate

• n. An order or command.
• v. To order, command, control.
• v. To speak in order for someone to write down the words.

district

• n. An administrative division of an area.
• n. An area or region marked by some distinguishing feature.
• n. (Britain) An administrative division of a county without the status of a borough.
• v. (transitive) To divide into administrative or other districts.
• adj. (obsolete) rigorous; stringent; harsh.

dominion

• n. Power or the use of power; sovereignty over something; stewardship, supremacy.
• n. predominance; ascendancy.
• n. (sometimes figuratively) A kingdom, nation, or other sphere of influence; governed territory.
• n. (historical) One of the dependencies of the British Empire given self-government and eventually independence,…
• n. (Biblical tradition) An order of angel in Christian angelology, ranked above angels and below thrones.

instrument

• n. A device used to produce music.
• n. A means or agency for achieving an effect.
• n. A measuring or displaying device.
• n. A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement.
• n. (law) A legal document, such as a contract, deed, trust, mortgage, power, indenture, or will.
• n. (figuratively) A person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal.
• v. (transitive) To apply measuring devices.
• v. (transitive) To devise, conceive, cook up, plan.
• v. To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument.

mandatory

• adj. Obligatory; required or commanded by authority.
• adj. Of, being or relating to a mandate.
• n. (dated, rare) A person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.

order

• n. (uncountable) Arrangement, disposition, sequence.
• n. (uncountable) The state of being well arranged.
• n. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
• n. (countable) A command.
• n. (countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
• n. (countable) A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion…
• n. (countable) An association of knights.
• n. any group of people with common interests.
• n. (countable) A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual,…
• n. (countable, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon…
• n. A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row;…
• n. An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry;…
• n. (architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon…
• n. (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
• n. (electronics) a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier,…
• n. (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function…
• n. (mathematics) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set or related structure.
• n. (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph.
• n. (order theory) A partially ordered set.
• n. (order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it in fact a partially ordered…
• n. (mathematics) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials…
• v. (transitive) To set in some sort of order.
• v. (transitive) To arrange, set in proper order.
• v. (transitive) To issue a command to.
• v. (transitive) To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
• v. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.

prescribe

• v. To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient.
• v. To specify as a required procedure or ritual; to lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule…

territory

• n. A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district.
• n. (Canada) One of three of Canada's federated entities, located in the country's Arctic, with fewer powers…
• n. A geographic area under control of a single governing entity such as state or municipality; an area whose…
• n. (ecology) An area that an animal of a particular species consistently defends against its conspecifics.
• n. (sports and games) The part of the playing field or board over which a player or team has control.
• n. A geographic area that a person or organization is responsible for in the course of work.
• n. A location or logical space which someone owns or controls.
• n. A market segment or scope of professional practice over which an organization or type of practitioner…
• n. An area of subject matter, knowledge, or experience.