Both Uses
mandate
in
Fast Food Nation
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- And it mandated that employees who work more than forty hours a week be paid overtime wages for each additional hour.†
p. 73.9 *
- Though the meatpacking industry has fought almost every federal effort to mandate food safety, it has also invested millions of dollars in new equipment to halt the spread of dangerous pathogens.†
p. 216.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(mandate as in: a mandate requiring) an official order or requirement
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(2)
(mandate as in: an electoral mandate) power or authority given to carry out policies -- typically given by voters
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)