Definition of "mandatary" []

• A person or nation receiving a mandate. (noun)

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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."
• "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 grade, not kindergarten."
• "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."