Meanings (ES + gloss)
mandar • ordenar • preceptuar
To (officially) require someone to do something or act in a certain way, to give them the authority to do so; to command.
A delegate conference was called, and garages invited to mandate their representatives to vote for or against continuance.
Last June Illinois passed a bill requiring the state to trace sexual partners, […] but mandating the department to preserve the confidentiality of reports.