mandatory

Speech parts

1. mandatory - Noun

2. mandatory - Adjective

3. mandatory - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Containing a command; preceptive; directory.

Same as Mandatary.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

required compulsory mandate mandatary must important necessary needed forced critical essential bound binding crucial regulation

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Antonyms

needless auxiliary arbitral minor secondary banned

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Hypernyms

dominion district receiver recipient territory territorial dominion

Phrases with the word

mandatory payment wasn't mandatory to mandatory insurance mandatory solemnity mandatory officer mandatory set of rules on building construction

Anagrams

damnatory

Examples

Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure there can be questions about whether one does as good work when you get into your-you know, I'm 67. William Rehnquist

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich. Muhammad Ali

Shut up, be happy. Obey all orders without question. The happiness you have demanded is now mandatory. Jello Biafra

Simply put, international terrorism made international cooperation mandatory rather than elective. Collective security has become the only real security against the hydra-headed monster of international terror. John Ashcroft

The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press. Lewis H. Lapham

Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code! Harold H. Greene

Close letter words and terms

mandator mandatorily mandatoriness mandatory detention mandatory holy day mandatory injunction