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Mandatory

Mandatory Meaning & Definition
Mandatory Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Mandatory?

[n] the recipient of a mandate
[n] a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and inhabited by people not yet able to stand by themselves and so put under the tutelage of some other European power
[adj] required by rule; "in most schools physical education are compulsory"; "attendance is mandatory"; "required reading"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Mandatory: compulsory | mandatary | mandate | obligatory | required

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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

See Also | dominion | province | receiver | recipient | territorial dominion | territory

Mandatory In Webster's Dictionary

\Man"da*to*ry\, a. [L. mandatorius.] Containing a command; preceptive; directory.
\Man"da*to*ry\, n. Same as {Mandatary}.

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