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n. - The recipient of a document giving an official instruction

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  • They went for 3 or 4 thousand years, until they were conquered by the romans and the last mandatary (Cleopatra VII) suicided.
  • AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR, ACCORDING TO plans laid during it, France became the mandatary power, under the League of Nations, in what today is Syria and Lebanon.
  • I remember — I think it was first — well it had to have been first grade because there wasn't mandatary kindergarten back then so my first year of school was first...
  • I guess everyone forget that the Chinese military is a mandatary enlistment.
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  • The newly-elected "mandatary" (recipient of special authority) made Monday meetings "mandatory" (compulsory).
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