n.[C]

1. 命令，指令
   carry out a mandate

   執行一項命令

2. （國際聯盟的）委託管理；託管地
3. （選民對選出的代表、議會等的）授權，委任[+to-v]
   The government has a mandate from the people to increase taxes.

   民眾授權政府增加稅收。

4. 受命進行的工作

vt.

1. 把（領土）委託別國管轄
   the mandated territories

   託管領地

n.

1. an official order or commission to do something.
2. Law  a commission by which a party is entrusted to perform a service, especially without payment and with indemnity against loss by that party.
3. a written authority enabling someone to carry out transactions on another's bank account.
4. historical a commission from the League of Nations to a member state to administer a territory.
5. the authority to carry out a policy or course of action, regarded as given by the electorate to a party or candidate that wins an election.

v.

1. give (someone) authority to act in a certain way.
2. make mandatory.
3. historical assign (territory) under a mandate of the League of Nations.