Man·date1 /ˈmændeɪt/ noun

man·date1 /ˈmændeɪt/ noun
1 [countable] if a government or official has a mandate to make important decisions, they have the authority to make the decisions because they have been elected by the people to do so

dole1 /dəʊl $ doʊl/ noun [uncountable] informal
1 British English money given by the government in Britain to people who are unemployed
be/go on the dole (=be unemployed and receiving money from the government)
Too many young people are still on the dole.
The number claiming dole went up by 3,500.

con·tri·bu·tion S2 W2 AC /ˌkɒntrəˈbjuːʃən, ˌkɒntrɪˈbjuːʃən $ ˌkɑːn-/
2 [countable] an amount of money that you give in order to help pay for something
de·vise /dɪˈvaɪz/ verb [transitive]
to plan or invent a new way of doing something:
She devised a method for quicker communications between offices.
Relief
MONEY [uncountable] old-fashioned especially American English money given by the government to help people who are poor, old, unemployed etc SYN welfare
on relief

cap·i·tal·is·m /ˈkæpətl-ɪzəm, ˈkæpɪtl-ɪzəm/ noun [uncountable]
an economic and political system in which businesses belong mostly to private owners, not to the government → communism, socialism

com·mu·nis·m, Communism /ˈkɒmjənɪzəm, ˈkɒmjʊnɪzəm $ ˈkɑː-/ noun [uncountable]
1 a political system in which the government controls the production of all food and goods, and there is no privately owned property → capitalism, socialism
2 the belief in this political system
so·cial·is·m /ˈsəʊʃəl-ɪzəm $ ˈsoʊ-/ noun [uncountable]
an economic and political system in which large industries are owned by the government, and taxes are used to take some wealth away from richer citizens and give it to poorer citizens → capitalism, communism


pu·ri·tan·i·cal /ˌpjʊərəˈtænɪkəl◂, ˌpjʊərɪˈtænɪkəl◂ $ ˌpjʊr-/ adjective
very strict about moral matters, especially sex – used in order to show disapproval:
a puritanical father who wouldn’t let his children watch television
The atmosphere at the school was oppressively puritanical.