Definitions
1.NounAn official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.
2.NounThe order or authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.
3.NounA period during which a government is in power.
4.NounAn 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.
5.NounSuch a territory.
6.VerbTo (officially) require someone to do something or act in a certain way, to give them the authority to do so; to command.
7.VerbTo make mandatory.
8.VerbTo administer or assign a territory to a nation under a mandate. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
9.VerbTo repeat, rehearse sermons or speeches aloud.
10.NounAlternative form of man date: a date between two men.