mandatory

adj
/ˈmæn.də.t(ə)ɹi/UK/ˈmæn.dəˌt(ɔ)ɹi/US/ˈmɛən.dəˌtɔɹ.i/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from mandatorius

Definitions

  1. obligatory

    obligatory; required or commanded by authority.

    • Attendance at a school is usually mandatory for children.
    • 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'.
    • 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
  3. A sign or line that require the path of the disc to be above, below or to one side of it.

  4. + 1 more definition
    1. A person, organisation or state who receives a mandate

      A person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at mandatory. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at mandatory. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at mandatory

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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