mandate (n.)
- agency
- ally
- archduchy
- assignment
- authority
- authorization
- behest
- bid
- bidding
- brevet
- care
- caveat
- charge
- chieftaincy
- city-state
- claim
- colony
- command
- commission
- commissioning
- commitment
- commonweal
- commonwealth
- consignment
- country
- county
- cure
- decree
- delegation
- dependency
- deputation
- devolution
- devolvement
- dictate
- domain
- dominion
- duchy
- dukedom
- earldom
- embassy
- empire
- empowerment
- errand
- feud
- fiat
- fiefdom
- freehold
- hold
- holding
- imperative
- initiative
- injunction
- interdict
- jurisdiction
- kingdom
- land
- lease
- leasehold
- legation
- license
- lieutenancy
- mandamus
- mandant
- mandatory
- mission
- nation
- nationality
- notice
- notification
- occupancy
- occupation
- office
- order
- owning
- plebiscite
- polis
- polity
- possession
- power
- precept
- preoccupancy
- preoccupation
- prepossession
- prescription
- principality
- process
- property
- protectorate
- province
- proxy
- purview
- realm
- recall
- referendum
- regency
- republic
- responsibility
- rule
- satellite
- settlement
- socage
- squatting
- state
- sublease
- sultanate
- superpower
- task
- tenancy
- tenantry
- tenure
- territory
- title
- trust
- trusteeship
- warrant
- word
- writ
