Pronunciation Adjective
mandatory
- Obligatory; required or commanded by authority.
- Attendance at a school is usually mandatory for children.
- 1999, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind, page 276
- This kind of immediate control structure we take to be characteristic of the tribe, and it leads to a rather rigid type of system in which 'every action not mandatory is forbidden'.
- 2011, Dirk Bünger, Deficits in EU and US Mandatory Environmental Information Disclosure: Legal, Comparative Legal and Economic Facets of Pollutant Release Inventories, Springer Science & Business Media ISBN 9783642227578, page 57
- It also discusses the access to legal instruments for enforcement with regard to mandatory disclosure of environmental information.
- Of, being or relating to a mandate.
- Mandatory Palestine
- (required or commanded by authority) compulsory, obligatory; See also Thesaurus:compulsory
- (relating to a mandate)
- (required or commanded by authority) optional, elective; See also Thesaurus:optional
- (relating to a mandate)
- French: obligatoire, requis
- German: zwingend notwendig, obligatorisch
- Italian: obbligatorio, richiesto, necessario
- Portuguese: obrigatório, necessário
- Russian: обяза́тельный
- Spanish: obligatorio, necesario
mandatory (plural mandatories)
- (disc golf) A sign or line that require the path of the disc to be above, below or to one side of it.
- Synonyms: mando
- (dated, rare) A person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.
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