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US
/ˈmændəˌtɔɹi/
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[ UK /mˈændətəɹˌi/ ]
[ UK /mˈændətəɹˌi/ ]
NOUN
- a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves
- the recipient of a mandate
ADJECTIVE
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required by rule
required reading
in most schools physical education is compulsory
attendance is mandatory
How To Use mandatory In A Sentence
- One effortlessly got saturation coverage, the other struggled to get noticed, despite the mandatory presence of a celebrity, a suitably weighty one too.
- The patient, priorly known only as "Patient Zeta," came forward Tuesday and called for mandatory condom use in the porn productions. Derrick Burts, HIV-positve porn actor, calls for condom use in industry
- The Slovakian bid seems to have the mandatory safety requirements covered, but not much more is explained.
- Yet necessary public-health interventions are by nature paternalistic: think fluoridation of municipal water supplies, compulsory vaccinations and mandatory reporting of communicable diseases.
- Is the appointment of worker - directors to be mandatory?
- She is campaigning for what she calls ‘sensible’ gun control, advocating trigger locks, childproof guns and mandatory background checks at gun shows.
- But FAA regulations require that if a mandatory inspection or other so-called airworthiness directive is skipped, the aircraft must be pulled out of service immediately until the work is done. Southwest Could Pay Record Fine to FAA
- The text may also be viewed as a legal instruction, issuing from God, requiring a particular and mandatory punishment for murder.
- A mandatory inclusive executive, however formed, involving those who are criminal godfathers will never gain our support.
- Waters managed to get his films screened in New York, where they soon became mandatory viewing for those in the underground art scene.