- a command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative: The president had a clear mandate to end the war.
- a command from a superior court or official to a lower one: The appellate court resolved the appeal and issued a mandate to the district judge.
- an authoritative order or command: a royal mandate.
- (in the League of Nations) a commission given to a nation to administer the government and affairs of a former Turkish territory or German colony.
- a mandated territory or colony.
- an order issued by the pope, especially one commanding the preferment of a certain person to a benefice.
- a contract by which one engages gratuitously to perform services for another.
- (in modern civil law) any contract by which a person undertakes to perform services for another.
- an order or decree by the emperor, especially to governors of provinces.
- to authorize or decree (a particular action), as by the enactment of law: The state legislature mandated an increase in the minimum wage.
- to order or require; make mandatory: to mandate sweeping changes in the election process.
- to consign (a territory, colony, etc.) to the charge of a particular nation under a mandate.
- an official or authoritative instruction or command
- the support or commission given to a government and its policies or an elected representative and his policies through an electoral victory
- (formerly) any of the territories under the trusteeship of the League of Nations administered by one of its member states
- a contract by which one person commissions another to act for him gratuitously and the other accepts the commission
- a contract of bailment under which the party entrusted with goods undertakes to perform gratuitously some service in respect of such goods
- a contract by which a person is engaged to act in the management of the affairs of another
- to assign (territory) to a nation under a mandate
- to delegate authority to
- to give a command to
