mandate vs police

mandate

verb
  • To make mandatory. 

  • To authorize. 

noun
  • An order by the League of Nations to a member nation to establish a government responsible for a conquered territory, as the colonies of Germany after World War I. 

  • A period during which a government is in power. 

  • Such a territory. 

  • An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization. 

  • The order or authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate. 

police

verb
  • To enforce norms or standards upon. 

  • To clean up an area. 

  • To enforce the law and keep order among (a group). 

noun
  • The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; (regional, chiefly US, Caribbean, Jamaica, Scotland, countable) an individual police officer. 

  • Any of the formally enacted law enforcement agencies at various levels of government. 

  • A branch of the Home Office responsible for general law enforcement within a specific territory. 

  • A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement. 

  • A public agency charged with enforcing laws and maintaining public order, usually being granted special privileges to do so, particularly 

  • People who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police. 

  • Cleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty. 

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