MANDATE

[noun] [C usually singular] - the authority given to an elected group of people, such as a government, to perform an action or govern a countryThere is concern that the latest wave of bombing has exceeded the United Nations mandate.At the forthcoming elections, the government will be seeking a fresh mandate from the people.The president secured the Congressional mandate to go to war by three votes. [+ to infinitive](specialized) A mandate is also the name of an area of land which has been given to a country by the UN (= an international organization of most of the world's countries) esp. following or as part of a peace agreement.