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mandatory
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mandatory has 2 senses
- mandatory(n = noun.person) mandatary - the recipient of a mandate; Array is a kind of receiver, recipient
- mandatory(n = noun.location) mandate - a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves; Array is a kind of district, dominion, territorial dominion, territory
Derived form verb mandate1
has particulars: palestine
Adjective mandatory has 1 sense
- mandatory(s = adj.all) compulsory, required - required by rule; "in most schools physical education is compulsory"; "attendance is mandatory"; "required reading" Derived form verb mandate2
CIDE DICTIONARY
mandatory, a. [L. mandatorius.].
- Containing a command; preceptive; directory. [1913 Webster]
- Obligatory; compulsory; required by authority. [PJC]
- Not optional; not able to be modified or disregarded; as, seven mandatory clauses in the contract. [PJC]
mandatory, n.
Same as Mandatary. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
mandatory, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of or conveying a command.
2 compulsory.
--n. (pl. -ies) = MANDATARY.
--adj.
1 of or conveying a command.
2 compulsory.
--n. (pl. -ies) = MANDATARY.
Derivative
mandatorily adv.
Etymology
LL mandatorius f. L (as MANDATE)
THESAURUS
mandatory
absolute, authoritative, binding, canonical, choiceless, commanded, commanding, compelling, compulsatory, compulsory, conclusive, de rigueur, decisive, decretory, demanded, dictated, didactic, entailed, essential, exigent, final, forced, formulary, hard and fast, hard-and-fast, imperative, imperious, importunate, imposed, indispensable, inevitable, instructive, involuntary, irrevocable, mandated, must, necessary, necessitous, needed, needful, obligatory, official, peremptory, preceptive, prescribed, prescript, prescriptive, regulation, required, requisite, rubric, standard, statutory, ultimate, urgent, without appeal, without choice
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