Meaning of MANDATORY
| Pronunciation: | | 'mandu`towree
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | compulsory, mandatary, mandate, obligatory, required |
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| | See Also: | | dominion, province, receiver, recipient, territorial dominion, territory | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Man"da*to*ry\, a. [L. mandatorius.]
Containing a command; preceptive; directory.
\Man"da*to*ry\, n.
Same as {Mandatary}.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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