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Mandatory

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Required or commanded by authority; obligatory: Attendance at the meeting is mandatory.

adj. Of, having the nature of, or containing a mandate.

adj. Holding a League of Nations mandate over a territory.

n. A mandatary.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Obligatory; required or commanded by authority.

adj. Of, being or relating to a mandate.

n. A person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Containing a command; preceptive; directory.

adj. Obligatory; compulsory; required by authority.

adj. Not optional; not able to be modified or disregarded.

n. Same as mandatary.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Of the nature of a mandate; containing a command or mandate; directory.

n. Same as mandatary.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. required by rule

n. 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

n. the recipient of a mandate

Word Usage

"But by using the term mandatory, we hope that that puts enough seriousness behind the order for people to leave."

Equivalent

obligatory

Antonym

optional

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

receiver recipient

Cross Reference

mandatory injunction mandatory statute

Variant

mandatary

Form

mandatoriness

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

preceptive directory obligatory compulsory commanding

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

compulsory stringent federal obligatory preliminary