mandatory
adjEtymology
From Late Latin mandatorius (“of or belonging to a mandator”), from mandātor (“one who commands”), equivalent to mandate + -ory; see mandate.
- derived from mandatorius
Definitions
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.
Of, being or relating to a mandate.
- Mandatory Palestine
A sign or line that require the path of the disc to be above, below or to one side of it.
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A person, organisation or state who receives a mandate
A person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.
The neighborhood
- neighbormandative
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.
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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