mandate
/ˈmeə̯ndeɪ̯t/ noun C1- An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.
- The order or authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.
- A period during which a government is in power.
- 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.
Plural mandates
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It is you who, sent by him to Constantinople, to treat with the emperor for the life or death of your benefactor, brought back a false mandate granting full pardon!
It is you who, with that mandate, obtained the pasha’s ring, which gave you authority over Selim, the fire-keeper!
And this time the tone and manner in which the command was given, betokened such growing hostility that the two young men perceived, for the first time, that the mandate was addressed to them.
The above-mentioned purchase was made on his highness’s account, whose mandate I had, for the sum of four hundred thousand francs.
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