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mandate   n 
1 an official or authoritative instruction or command 
2  (Politics) the support or commission given to a government and its policies or an elected representative and his policies through an electoral victory 
3  (Also called)  mandated territory (formerly) any of the territories under the trusteeship of the League of Nations administered by one of its member states 
4 
a  (Roman law) a contract by which one person commissions another to act for him gratuitously and the other accepts the commission 
b  (Contract law) a contract of bailment under which the party entrusted with goods undertakes to perform gratuitously some service in respect of such goods 
c  (Scots law) a contract by which a person is engaged to act in the management of the affairs of another  vb 
5  (International law) to assign (territory) to a nation under a mandate 
6 to delegate authority to 
7 Obsolete to give a command to 
 (C16: from Latin mandatum something commanded, from mandare to command, perhaps from manus hand + dare to give) 
♦  mandator  n