- binding
- compulsory
- de rigueur
- essential
- forced
- imperative
- indispensable
- involuntary
- obligatory
- requisite
- commanding
- compelling
- compulsatory
- imperious
- irremissible
- needful
On this page you’ll find 42 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mandatory, such as: binding, compulsory, de rigueur, essential, forced, and imperative.
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SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
WORDS RELATED TO MANDATORY
- administrative
- approved
- bureaucratic
- canonical
- departmental
- ex cathedra
- ex officio
- executive
- imperial
- lawful
- legal
- legitimate
- magisterial
- mandatory
- ruling
- sanctioned
- sovereign
- supreme
- bounden
- compulsory
- conclusive
- counted upon
- essential
- imperative
- incumbent on
- indissoluble
- irrevocable
- mandatory
- obligatory
- required
- requisite
- unalterable
- compulsatory
- de rigueur
- forced
- imperative
- imperious
- mandatory
- necessary
- obligatory
- required
- requisite
- a must
- au fait
- called-for
- comme il faut
- conforming to accepted standards
- conventional
- correct
- mandatory
- necessary
- obligatory
- proper
- required
- right
- affected
- artificial
- begrudging
- binding
- bound
- coerced
- coercive
- compelled
- conscripted
- constrained
- contrived
- enforced
- factitious
- false
- grudging
- inflexible
- insincere
- involuntary
- labored
- mandatory
- obligatory
- peremptory
- rigid
- slave
- stiff
- stringent
- unnatural
- unwilling
- wooden
- absolute
- binding
- carved in stone
- compulsory
- conclusive
- decisive
- dictated
- exacting
- final
- inflexible
- irrevocable
- mandatory
- set
- set in concrete
- unalterable
- unbending
- written
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mandatary, mandatorynoun
the recipient of a mandate
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mandate, mandatoryadjective
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
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mandatary, authorization, authorisation, mandateAntonyms:
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compulsory, mandatory, requiredadjective
required by rule
«in most schools physical education is compulsory»; «attendance is mandatory»; «required reading»
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compulsory, requisite, needful, needed, requiredAntonyms:
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List of paraphrases for «mandatory»:
compulsory, obligatory, binding, peremptory, non-compensatory, required, imperative, coercive, statutory, obligation, prescriptive, enforceable, requirement, mandated
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Scott Morrison:
I would expect it to be as mandatory as you could possibly make it.
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Brett Davis-USA:
I think for me coming here, I was n’t coming here to look at what my next job would be, i wanted to come in here and have a blast and hopefully kick ass and make an impact. … If those moments come, I ’ll be ready for them if the right scenario came about, but honestly, I ’m having a blast right here with this crew and going for it. That’s where my mind is, that’s where my heart is. Oct 25, 2015 ; Nashville, TN, USA ; Atlanta Falcons head coach Dan Quinn on the sideline during the second half against the Tennessee Titans at Nissan Stadium. Atlanta won 10-7. Mandatory Credit : Jim Brown-USA TODAY Sports CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP.
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Josh Hawley:
This is an individual who, across her career — from the time she was in law school, to her service on the United States Sentencing Commission, to her time on the federal bench — has consistently argued to give criminals lighter sentences to reduce the mandatory sentences that are imposed for criminal offenses to let criminals out of jail early.
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Chris Young:
This is Judge( Kevin) Judge Sharp and Chris Young. This is the man that had to give me two life sentences, but I knew it was not something that he wanted to do. He wasn’t choosing for me to have two life sentences. America and its judicial systems chose that. … It’s called a mandatory minimum and it means exactly that — it is mandatory. So I knew he had no choice.
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Dobby Chew:
For the most part, we are on the right track for Malaysia – it’s a reform that has been a long time coming, we should not deny the fact that the state is killing someone and whether the state should have this kind of power … having the mandatory punishment abolished is a good time for us to start reflecting about it.
Translations for mandatory
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- إلزامي, مفروض, إجباريArabic
- задължителенBulgarian
- obligatoriCatalan, Valencian
- povinnýCzech
- obligatoriskDanish
- zwingend notwendig, obligatorischGerman
- υποχρεωτικόςGreek
- obligatorio, necesarioSpanish
- pakollinenFinnish
- requis, obligatoireFrench
- הכרחיHebrew
- kötelezőHungarian
- obbligatorio, necessario, richiestoItalian
- 必須の, 強制的なJapanese
- 의무적인Korean
- nodig, verplichtDutch
- obligatoriskNorwegian
- obowiązkowyPolish
- obrigatório, necessárioPortuguese
- обязательный, обязательноеRussian
- obligatoriskSwedish
- zorunluTurkish
- لازمی ہےUrdu
- 強Chinese
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1 definition
| mandatory (Adjective) — | Required by rule 1 example |
| 1. ex. «attendance is mandatory» |
2 definitions
| mandatory (Noun) — | The recipient of a mandate |
| mandatory (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 |
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compelled, compulsory, essential, forced, imperative, en.synonym.one, imperious, indispensable, inescapable, necessary, needed, obligatory, prerequisite, required, requisite, wanted, mandatary, mandate.
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binding, compulsory, obligatory, required, requisite
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discretionary, nonbinding, noncompulsory, nonobligatory, optional, unnecessary, voluntary
English Collins Dictionary — English synonyms & Thesaurus
mandatory
1 adj If an action or procedure is mandatory, people have to do it, because it is a rule or a law.
FORMAL
(=compulsory)
…the mandatory retirement age of 65…, Attendance is mandatory.
2 adj If a crime carries a mandatory punishment, that punishment is fixed by law for all cases, in contrast to crimes for which the judge or magistrate has to decide the punishment for each particular case.
FORMAL, Antonym: discretionary …the mandatory life sentence for murder.
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