mandatory
English
Etymology
From Late Latin mandatorius (“of or belonging to a mandator”), from mandator (“one who commands”); see mandate.
Pronunciation
Adjective
mandatory (comparative more mandatory, superlative most mandatory)
- Obligatory; required or commanded by authority.
- Attendance at a school is usually mandatory.
- 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, 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
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Translations
obligatory
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Noun
mandatory (plural mandatories)
Further reading
- mandatory in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- mandatory in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
- The Oxford English Dictionary
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