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Webster 1913 Edition
Mandatory
Man′da-to-ry
,Adj.
[L.
mandatorius
.] 1.
Containing a command; preceptive; directory.
Webster 1828 Edition
Mandatory
MAN'DATORY
,Noun.
1.
A person to whom the pope has by his prerogative given a mandate or order for his benefice.2.
One to whom a command or charge is given.3.
In law, one who undertakes, without a recompense, to do some act for another in respect to the thing bailed to him.Definition 2024
mandatory
mandatory
English
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 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
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Translations
obligatory
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Noun
mandatory (plural mandatories)
External links
- 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