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n. A director; one who gives a mandate or order.

n. The person who employs another to perform a mandate.

n. A director; one who gives a mandate or order.

n. The person who employs another to perform a mandate.

n. A director.

n. In law

n. A bailor of goods.

n. The person who delegates another to perform a mandate.

n. In civil law, the person who employs another (called a manadatarius or mandatary) to convey goods gratuitously, or in a gratuitous agency.

n. an authority who issues a mandate

"The FDA leadership pushed hard for the bill in Congress, especially provisions giving the agency oversight of production standards and mandator y recall power."

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