mandate

Meanings

Noun

• An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.
• The authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.
• A period during which a government is in power.

Verb

• to authorize
• to make mandatory

Origin

• Noun is borrowed from Latin mandātum, neut of. mandātus, past participle of mando, from manus + do. Compare command, commend, demand, remand.
• The verb is from the noun.