mandatory
IPA: mˈændʌtɔri
noun
- (disc golf) A sign or line that require the path of the disc to be above, below or to one side of it.
- (dated, rare) A person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.
adjective
- Obligatory; required or commanded by authority.
- Of, being or relating to a mandate.
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Examples of "mandatory" in Sentences
- Careful selection of cases is mandatory.
- Only the first of the three is mandatory.
- I had to assail him for it was mandatory.
- The former is mandatory and the latter voluntary.
- Disclosure of the information by the vendor is mandatory.
- Public education became mandatory to indoctrinate the youth.
- It is definitely mandatory to incubate the babies to protect them.
- The component portion for the unidirectional primitive is mandatory.
- Illuminant estimation and adaptation are mandatory for this environment.
- Registration is mandatory under the constitution and the law of associations.
- That said, what is it going to take to put teeth in the term mandatory evacuation?
- But, another issue out there you may not be aware of is what they call mandatory enrollment.
- But by using the term mandatory, we hope that that puts enough seriousness behind the order for people to leave.
- Kanawha Circuit Judge Duke Bloom delayed Light's arraignment briefly to allow time for what he called a mandatory conference.
- This is the only mention of "mandatory" in conjunction with service, the only other use of the word mandatory is in regard to prohibited qualifying activities (religious ceremonies).
- Such voting — let's call it mandatory absentee balloting — takes the voter out of the polling booth and puts him at home or elsewhere, someplace where votes could be sold to the highest bidder.
- For the same reason they put 'mandatory' in quotes: To both differentiate it from an after-school activity, and because they know that "mandatory" is exactly that – "mandatory" with quotes and all.
- They were with a half-dozen friends at the Lehigh Pub in Bethlehem last month, so the establishment tacked what it called a mandatory 18 percent gratuity onto the bill of about $73, according to reports.
- On the last Tuesday of each month, she and her three horns and five rhythm put on an unstoppable juggernaut of a set at the Iridium, with one hard-hitting swinger after another, pausing only for what she describes as a mandatory "two-ballad minimum."