mandatory
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈmæn.də.t(ə)ɹi/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈmæn.dəˌtɔ.ɹi/
Adjective

mandatory

  1. 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.
  2. Of, being or relating to a mandate.
    Mandatory Palestine
Synonyms Antonyms Translations Noun

mandatory (plural mandatories)

  1. (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
  2. (dated, rare) A person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.



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