mandate
MAN-daytnounMeaning an official order; also, authority given by voters
Memory hook MAND = comMAND: an official order. The principal posts the new command by the bike path: “Helmets required.” An official order like that is a mandate.
The school board issued a mandate: every student must wear a helmet on the bike path.
In context Having won the election with eighty percent of the vote, the new mayor believed she had a clear mandate to rebuild the old park.
Similar order, command, directive, authority
From Latin mandatum, “something ordered,” from mandare, “to order, to entrust.”