Mandatory

Quick meaning: Mandatory is an adjective meaning obligatory; required or commanded by authority.

Meaning

obligatory; required or commanded by authority.

More Meanings

1. Of, being or relating to a mandate.
2. (disc golf) A sign or line that require the path of the disc to be above, below or to one side of it.
3. (dated, rare) A person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.

Example Sentences

Mandatory Palestine

Attendance at a school is usually mandatory for children.

It also discusses the access to legal instruments for enforcement with regard to mandatory disclosure of environmental information.

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'.

Word Forms

• mandatories

Synonyms for mandatory

Depending on context, synonyms include compulsory, obligatory, binding, compulsatory, decretory, forced.

Antonyms for mandatory

Common opposites include optional, elective, discretionary, facultative, free, noncompulsory.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include obligatory, compulsory, required, mandatary, mandated, obliged.

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