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mandate(2) (iou) and pressure cooker (oh)


mandate(2) (iou)



mandate verb trans. E17.
[Latin mandat- pa. ppl stem of mandare: see MANDATE noun, -ATE3.]
Command, require by mandate; necessitate. (rare before L20.) Now chiefly US. E17.
Commit (one's sermon) to memory. Scot. E18.
Hist. Assign (territory) under a mandate of the League of Nations. E20.
Give a mandate to, delegate authority to (a representative, group, organization, etc.). Freq. as mandated ppl adjective. M20.

pressure cooker (oh)



n [C]
a tightly-covered Cooking pot in which Food is cooked very quickly by the pressure of hot steam
a situation or place that causes anxiety or difficulties
::the pressure cooker of Soccer Management