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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
compulsory
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
compulsory redundancies (=when workers are forced to be redundant)
▪ He promised there would be no compulsory redundancies.
compulsory schooling (=the time during which children have to attend school by law)
▪ children in their final year of compulsory schooling
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
acquisition
▪ This process often involved the compulsory acquisition of firms and hence their potential closure.
admission
▪ Referral for compulsory admission is clearly an issue of power.
▪ Where compulsory admission was necessary, three types of admission orders were defined.
▪ Although considered in need of assessment or treatment, these women did not require compulsory admission, with the attendant limits on civil liberties.
▪ New Mental Health Tribunals were set up in each health region to deal with any complaints arising from compulsory admission procedures.
▪ Third, the move towards compulsory admissions to residential care should be discouraged in favour of voluntary and planned admissions.
▪ However, many were referred for compulsory admission where they were subsequently not admitted, or admitted informally.
▪ The father, so angered by the compulsory admission, became threatening and abusive to residential staff.
▪ First, ASWs took responsibility for decisions diverting individuals from compulsory admission.
education
▪ The law which makes Work Experience possible for young people in their last year of compulsory education specifically forbids their receiving payment.
▪ A child who lives in a state that requires school attendance must attend some acceptable school during the years of compulsory education.
▪ Parents usually keep their children at home for a couple of years after they have completed their six years of compulsory education.
▪ The State advances two primary arguments in support of its system of compulsory education.
▪ The period of costly childhood dependency was further lengthened by the introduction of compulsory education from 1880.
▪ But there are, of course, provisions governing compulsory education.
▪ A special interest group for researchers in post-compulsory education and lifelong learning recently had its first meeting.
purchase
▪ For example: Your business or home is threatened with a compulsory purchase order.
▪ Public bodies may apply for a compulsory purchase order in respect of certain property.
▪ Any land in excess of this maximum was subject to compulsory purchase by the government.
▪ The agency should have powers of compulsory purchase and therefore the site of the town should be publicly owned.
▪ The local council also opposes the compulsory purchase order.
▪ One example from a multitude of possible examples is the compulsory purchase order enquiry.
▪ The Department of the Environment produces free booklets on planning permission, enforcement, appeals and compulsory purchase.
▪ A compulsory purchase order has been served on your business premises.
redundancy
▪ The bulk of the jobs will go next year, and the company is promising there will be no compulsory redundancies.
▪ Hugh was at the Milton sit-in, where the workers won a fight to stop compulsory redundancies but lost the war.
▪ The foremen, members of the white-collar Manufacturing Science and Finance union, were protesting over the threat of compulsory redundancies.
▪ They are among 1,500 staff of the bank who are facing compulsory redundancy.
▪ Read in studio Management say any compulsory redundancies will be announced later.
▪ And there would be no more compulsory redundancies.
▪ The ballot came as a result of threats of compulsory redundancies.
▪ Labour moderates win over four of the hard left by agreeing that the cuts shall involve as few compulsory redundancies as possible.
registration
▪ He has called for the compulsory registration of all property transactions in an attempt to stop the use of secret deals.
▪ Therefore the withdrawal of compulsory registration altered the situation.
▪ Nine out of 10 directors say there should be compulsory registration of private care agencies.
sale
▪ He is understood to feel that compulsory sales would break up historic estates.
▪ Dealing with untraceable shareholders under the compulsory sale procedures is more troublesome.
school
▪ The order will terminate when the child ceases to be of compulsory school age or if a care order is made.
▪ In this respect, the law on compulsory school attendance clearly has its limitations.
▪ Even within the compulsory school age, inequalities have remained.
▪ During the compulsory school period there are usually only two centres, home and school, which coordinate services for children.
▪ That technical instruction should be provided during the compulsory school years.
▪ Work with parents Little professional work with parents is undertaken after the compulsory school period.
schooling
▪ The use of education services has become more equal during the years of compulsory schooling.
▪ This will help pupils to develop a personal love of reading which will continue after compulsory schooling.
▪ To compel a pupil to obey a teacher makes no sense without placing it in the context of compulsory schooling enforced legally.
▪ This list is carried in publicity and in information given directly to pupils in their final year of compulsory schooling.
▪ Historically, she has laid much greater stress than her continental neighbours on sophisticated external examinations at the end of compulsory schooling.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All young men are required to do two years of compulsory military service.
▪ Attendance at the meeting is compulsory.
▪ It is now compulsory for anyone claiming state benefit to register with a job centre.
▪ Maths and English are compulsory for all students.
▪ Smoke detectors are compulsory in all new buildings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I suspect this, like compulsory religious education, gave me a lifelong scepticism about obligatory elements in any curriculum.
▪ The study of Shakespeare is compulsory for major and joint programmes.
▪ There are many benefits of compulsory competitive tendering in London, but many local authorities resisted it.
▪ They pushed for state laws on compulsory sterilization of criminals and the physically defective, with some success.
▪ This amounts to compulsory purchase, but holds out the prospect that the shares will rise.
▪ Thus, for Austen's heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, marriage was not just important, it was compulsory.
▪ We will maintain our programme of compulsory competitive tendering of local authority services.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Compulsory

Compulsory \Com*pul"so*ry\, a. [LL. compulsorius.]

  1. Having the power of compulsion; constraining.

  2. Obligatory; enjoined by authority; necessary; due to compulsion.

    This contribution threatening to fall infinitely short of their hopes, they soon made it compulsory.
    --Burke.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
compulsory

1580s, from Medieval Latin compulsorius, from Latin compulsus, past participle of compellere "to drive together, force, compel" (see compel).

Wiktionary
compulsory

a. Required; obligatory; mandatory. n. Something that is compulsory or required.

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WordNet
compulsory

adj. required by rule; "in most schools physical education are compulsory"; "attendance is mandatory"; "required reading" [syn: mandatory, required]

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Usage examples of "compulsory".

Bill, the measures for establishing Trade Boards and Labour Exchanges, the schemes of compulsory and voluntary assurance, and the Budget.

An antitrust action brought by the Federal Trade Commission forced the company to accept a consent decree requiring it to license its patents on a compulsory basis and to offer its machines for saleas well as on lease.

Thwarted at every turn, his captives escaped, first Mary and then Martin tweaking their Russellian noses at his compulsory hospitality.

New Orleans, Louisiana, Wilmington, Delaware, Nashville, Tennessee, and several other cities have adopted some lines of industrial education in their public schools, and in some places it is compulsory.

Of course, if you followed the direct Supramental yoga then it would be compulsory.

Education is compulsory, and there is a rigid military service, and a show of public force everywhere which is quite unknown to our unneighbored, easy-going republic.

We should all three have laughed at that compulsory reserve which we would have felt to be ridiculous, but we should, for all that, have submitted to it.

I did not wish to wait for the time when a compulsory confession would have made her blush for her weakness, and given her cause to think of the fearful consequences which might have been the result of her passion for me.

Compulsory Marriage I myself once proposed an alternative scheme, to wit, the prohibition of sentimental marriages by law, and the substitution of match-making by the common hangman.

And with motorways there came compulsory purchase orders and large sums paid in compensation.

With us the purchase of valuable land for railways, together with the legal expenses which those compulsory purchases entailed, have been so great that with all our traffic railways are not remunerative.

For in the last day, when we shall all appear before Him whose ways are not as our ways, or his thoughts as our thoughts - in that day, the question will not be, whether the compulsory system, or the denominational system, or any other system, satisfied best our sectarian ways and our narrow thoughts: but whether they satisfied the ways of that Father in heaven who willeth not that one little child should perish.

It strikes me that it would be better not to insist upon a compulsory marriage which would seal your daughter's misery, for Steffani is, in every respect, one of the most worthless young men we have amongst our government clerks.

From a Japanese broadcast: "In order to do justice to the patriotic spirit of the Koreans, the Japanese Government have decided to introduce compulsory military service in Korea.

To give their brutalities the semblance of right, they improvise two pompous demonstrations, first, the sudden manufacture of a paper constitution, which molders away in their archives, and next, the scandalous farce of a hollow and compulsory plebiscite.