mandatory

mandatory
mandatorily, adv.
/man"deuh tawr'ee, -tohr'ee/, adj., n., pl. mandatories.
adj.
1. authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
2. pertaining to, of the nature of, or containing a command.
3. Law. permitting no option; not to be disregarded or modified: a mandatory clause.
4. having received a mandate, as a nation.
n.
5. mandatary.
[1655-65; < LL mandatorius. See MANDATE, -TORY1]
Syn. 1. requisite, exigent.

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