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Definition of Mandatory
1. Adjective. Required by rule. "Required reading"
2. Noun. The recipient of a mandate.
3. Noun. A territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves.
Generic synonyms: District, Dominion, Territorial Dominion, Territory
Specialized synonyms: Palestine
Definition of Mandatory
1. a. Containing a command; preceptive; directory.
2. n. Same as Mandatary.
Definition of Mandatory
1. Adjective. Obligatory; required or commanded by authority. ¹
2. Adjective. Of, or relating to a mandate. ¹
3. Noun. (context: dated rare) A person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mandatory
1. [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mandatory
Literary usage of Mandatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Korea by OECD Staff (2004)
"A. mandatory retirement The available evidence points to mandatory retirement
being a common practice among Korean firms and that it is often set at a low ..."
2. Statutes and Statutory Construction: Including a Discussion of Legislative by Jabez Gridley Sutherland (1904)
"DIRECTORY AND mandatory STATUTES § 610 (446). Preliminary explanation of directory
and mandatory statutes.— The consequential distinction between directory ..."
3. The Economic and Budget Outlook: Fiscal Years, 1999-2008 edited by Sherry Snyder (1998)
"Entitlements and Other mandatory Programs Currently, more than half of the nearly
$1.7 ... mandatory programs make payments to recipients—usually people but ..."
4. The Law of Railways: Embracing the Law of Corporations, Eminent Domain by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1888)
"mandatory Injunctions sometimes allowed. 1. Injunction may have a mandatory 4.
mandatory injunction granted only effect, but it must be specific. 2. ..."
5. State Responses to Serious & Violent Juvenile Crime by Patricia Torbet, Richard Gable, Imogene Montgomery (1996)
"In Texas, for example, a juvenile must receive a mandatory minimum sentence of at
... Other examples of mandatory minimum commitment statutes for juveniles ..."
6. Federal Options for Reducing Waste Disposal by Terry Dinan (1995)
"Under mandatory recycling programs, households must recycle even when the net cost
... In spite of the advantages of voluntary recycling programs, mandatory ..."
7. Primary Elections: A Study of the History and Tendencies of Primary Election by Charles Edward Merriam (1909)
"The tendency was to establish a mandatory minimum of regulation for the entire
state, and leave the more advanced features of the new laws, whether optional ..."
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