mandating Definition

mandate
noun

1. A right or authorization given to a nation, person, etc to act on behalf of others.
2a. politics.
Legal authorization given to an MP or other elected official to act on behalf of other people;
2b. politics.
Permission to govern according to declared policies, considered to be given to a political party or leader by the electorate on the decisive outcome of an election.
3a. finance.
In banking: a form indicating that one customer may act on behalf of more than one;
Example: joint account mandate
3b. finance.
In banking: a form to instruct an employer, company, etc to pay salary, dividends, etc into one's bank account;
3c. finance.
In building societies: an instruction for the regular payment of a specified sum between accounts held by the society.
4. An order given by a superior official, judge, etc to an inferior one ordering them how to act.

Example: papal mandate
Thesaurus: decree, command, order, directive, edict, injunction, precept, behest, sanction, warrant.
5a. historical
A territory administered by a country on behalf of the League of Nations;
Form: Mandate (also)
Form: mandated territory
5b. historical
The power conferred on a country by the League of Nations to administer such a territory.
Form: Mandate (also)

verb mandated, mandating

1. To give authority or power to someone or something.
2. To assign (territory) to a nation under a mandate.

Etymology: 16c: from Latin mandatum a thing that is commanded, from mandare to command or charge.