compulsory
Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin compulsorius, from Latin compulsus.
Pronunciation Adjectivecompulsory
- Required; obligatory; mandatory.
- The ten-dollar fee was compulsory.
- 1996, Ugo Pagano, Democracy and Efficiency in the Economic Enterprise, page 73:
- Some might agree that membership in the firm is perhaps more compulsory than membership in a municipality, but balk at applying the analogy to the nation.
- Having the power of compulsion; constraining.
- Such compulsory measures are limited.
- French: obligatoire
- German: obligatorisch, pflichtmäßig, gesetzlich, verpflichtend
- Italian: obbligatorio, coatto
- Portuguese: obrigatório
- Russian: обяза́тельный
- Spanish: obligatorio
- German: zwangsweise, verpflichtend
- Italian: obbligatorio, coatto
- Portuguese: compulsório
- Russian: принуди́тельный
compulsory (plural compulsories)
- Something that is compulsory or required.
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