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Noun is borrowed from Latinmandātum(“a charge, order, command, commission, injunction”), neut of. mandātus, past participle of mandāre(“to commit to one's charge, order, command, commission, literally to put into one's hands”), from manus(“hand”) + dare(“to put”). Compare command, commend, demand, remand.
2017 March 27, “The Observer view on triggering article 50”, in The Observer:
Instead, May, more sheep than shepherd, has feebly allowed herself to be driven ever further towards an extreme, inflexible, take-it-or-leave-it stance for which she has neither mandate nor credible grounds.
2002, Leroy G. Dorsey, The Presidency and Rhetorical Leadership, Texas A&M University Press, →ISBN, page 30:
John Tyler and James K. Polk both regarded the election results as a mandate for the annexation of Texas.
(Canada) A period during which a government is in power.
2000 October 6, John Richards, “Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1919-2000”, in The Globe and Mail, archived from the original on 9 October 2019:
Throughout his last mandate, from 1980 to 1984, Mr. Trudeau insisted that we see ourselves solely as Canadians, that we set aside the historic compromises that underlie Canada as a federation.
(historical) 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.
2007 September 7, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 3:
Moss: Oh, he's long gone, although Roy's got a mandate with him. Roy: It is not a mandate. I am not a man-woman. We are not married. I am not your wife!