different between liability vs mandatory

English

Etymology

From liable +? -ity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la???b?l?ti/
• Hyphenation: li?abil?ity

Noun

liability (countable and uncountable, plural liabilities)

1. An obligation, debt or responsibility owed to someone.
   • 1901, W. W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw

     "I was to say that Maw and Meggins disclaim all responsibility," continued the other. "They admit no liability at all, but in consideration of your son's services they wish to present you with a certain sum as compensation."

2. A handicap that holds something back, a drawback, someone or something that is a burden to whoever is required to take care of them; an individual or action that exposes others to greater risk.
   • 2016 January 31, "Is Huma Abedin Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon or Her Next Big Problem?," Vanity Fair (retrieved 21 January 2016):

     Asked if at some point Huma becomes a liability to Hillary, the long-term Clinton insider replies, “It’s like anything else. I don’t think so, but you know I don’t have any idea. Hillary is very loyal, but she’s obviously pragmatic.”

3. The likelihood of something happening.
4. The condition of being susceptible to something.

Antonyms

• asset

Derived terms

• enterprise liability
• limited liability
• limited liability company
• secondary liability
• strict liability
• vicarious liability

Translations

Anagrams

• alibility

English

Etymology

From Late Latin mandatorius (“of or belonging to a mandator”), from mandator (“one who commands”); see mandate.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mæn.d?.t(?)?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mæn.d??t?.?i/

Adjective

mandatory (comparative more mandatory, superlative most mandatory)

1. Obligatory; required or commanded by authority.

   Attendance at a school is usually mandatory for children.

   • 1999, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind, page 276

     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'.

   • 2011, Dirk Bünger, Deficits in EU and US Mandatory Environmental Information Disclosure: Legal, Comparative Legal and Economic Facets of Pollutant Release Inventories, Springer Science & Business Media ?ISBN, page 57

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

2. Of, being or relating to a mandate.

   Mandatory Palestine

Synonyms

• (required or commanded by authority): compulsory, obligatory; See also Thesaurus:compulsory
• (relating to a mandate):

Antonyms

• (required or commanded by authority): optional, elective; See also Thesaurus:optional
• (relating to a mandate):

Derived terms

• mandatoriness
• mandatorily

Translations

Noun

mandatory (plural mandatories)

1. (disc golf) A sign or line that require the path of the disc to be above, below or to one side of it.

   Synonym: (colloquial) mando

2. (dated, rare) A person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.

Further reading

• mandatory in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• mandatory in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
• The Oxford English Dictionary

Anagrams

• damnatory