noun An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.
noun The order or authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.
noun A period during which a government is in power.
noun An order by the League of Nations to a member nation to establish a government responsible for a conquered territory, as the colonies of Germany after World War I. Such a territory.
noun Such a territory.
verb To (officially) require someone to do something or act in a certain way, to give them the authority to do so; to command.
verb To make mandatory.
verb To administer or assign a territory to a nation under a mandate. (Can we add an example for this sense?)