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mandatory
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)
- 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.
- 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)
- (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
- (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
mandatory From the web:
- what mandatory means
- what mandatory sentencing
- what mandatory is required for workers
- what mandatory information is on a food label
- what does mandatory mean
impressed
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?p??st/
- Rhymes: -?st
- Hyphenation: im?pressed
Adjective
impressed (comparative more impressed, superlative most impressed)
- strongly affected, especially favourably
- stamped, under pressure
- compelled to serve in a military force
- confiscated by force or authority
Antonyms
- unimpressed
Related terms
- impress
- impressive
Translations
Verb
impressed
- simple past tense and past participle of impress
See also
- imprest
Anagrams
- permissed, premissed
impressed From the web:
- what impressed the animals about the jones' house
- what impressed marco polo about china
- what impressed festus about paul
- what impressed lyddie about the factory girl
- what impressed means
- what impressed herbert hoover
- what impressed the british about india
- what impressed augustine about ambrose
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