Both Uses of
mandate
in
Fast Food Nation
- 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
Definition:
an official order or authority to act -- either as a command that must be followed or as power given to carry out policies