Mandatory \Man"da*to*ry\, a. [L. mandatorius.]
1. Containing a command; preceptive; directory.
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2. Obligatory; compulsory; required by authority.
[PJC]
3. (Law) Not optional; not able to be modified or
disregarded; as, seven mandatory clauses in the contract.
[PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mandatory \Man"da*to*ry\, n.
Same as Mandatary.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
mandatory
adj : required by rule; "in most schools physical education are
compulsory"; "attendance is mandatory"; "required
reading" [syn: compulsory, required]
n 1: the recipient of a mandate [syn: mandatary]
2: a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War
I and put under the tutelage of some other European power
until they ar able to stand by themselves [syn: mandate]
WordNet (r) 2.0
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
compulsory, mandatary, mandate, required
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