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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mandatory
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
life
▪ Nor was there any change so far as mandatory life sentences were concerned in the 1987 statement.
▪ The change would mean a U-turn for Mr Hague, who voted in 1991 to keep the mandatory life sentence for murder.
▪ It might also be argued that the mandatory life sentence makes a substantial contribution to public safety.
retirement
▪ The deal struck has been to raise the mandatory retirement age from 60 to 65, starting early in the next century.
▪ Up until 1966, stewardesses faced mandatory retirement at age thirty-two or upon marriage-whichever came first.
▪ Amendments to the Act have now abolished mandatory retirement altogether for most categories of workers.
▪ Due largely to changes in mandatory retirement laws, there are now only five faculty members in the club.
▪ However, within the labour movement, interest in mandatory retirement was growing.
▪ Should grabbing hold of that famous stiff-armed bronze trophy come with a mandatory retirement age, like piloting a passenger plane?
sentence
▪ The trial judge, Caulfield J., imposed the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment.
▪ He called for more mandatory sentences and the death penalty.
▪ He parents wept as the judge delivered the mandatory sentence.
▪ This is of course the mandatory sentence for a person convicted of murder.
▪ To suggest this child died because of mandatory sentence is grotesque.
▪ In some jurisdictions this is a mandatory sentence of death.
▪ In others, such as those in the United Kingdom, it is the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Drug smuggling carries a mandatory death sentence.
▪ In some countries, wearing helmets is mandatory for all cyclists.
▪ The company's mandatory retirement age is 65.
▪ Wearing a helmet when riding a motorcycle is mandatory.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Can some one explain how kids' birthday parties became mandatory and, frequently, icky?
▪ It is mandatory for riders under 21, and costs $ 65.
▪ The court made a mandatory order compelling the vendor to allow the person to enter so that the valuation could proceed.
▪ The next-closest school is Morse, a perennial football power and mandatory stop for major-college recruiters.
▪ The overarching concern regarding mandatory therapy is not whether it is just or moral but whether it cures or improves.
▪ The validation of our model using the same selection criteria was also mandatory.
▪ Those in charge of drawing up a blueprint for health-care reform talk of slapping mandatory controls on all drug prices.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mandatory

Mandatory \Man"da*to*ry\, n. Same as Mandatary.

Mandatory

Mandatory \Man"da*to*ry\, a. [L. mandatorius.]

  1. Containing a command; preceptive; directory.

  2. Obligatory; compulsory; required by authority.

  3. (Law) Not optional; not able to be modified or disregarded; as, seven mandatory clauses in the contract.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mandatory

1570s, "of the nature of a mandate," from Late Latin mandatorius "pertaining to a mandator," from Latin mandatus, past participle of mandare (see mandate (n.)). Sense of "obligatory because commanded" is from 1818.

Wiktionary
mandatory

a. 1 obligatory; required or commanded by authority. 2 Of, being or relating to a mandate. n. (context dated rare English) A person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.

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WordNet
mandatory

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

mandatory

  1. n. the recipient of a mandate [syn: mandatary]

  2. a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they ar able to stand by themselves [syn: mandate]

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Usage examples of "mandatory".

I realize that it is not mandatory for the government to produce a corpse to substantiate a charge of murder, but a corpse or two is not too much to ask, if they are alleging over a hundred deaths.

Insofar as they were for anything, it was an anarchic notion of popular government, always armed to impose the will of the people on its mandatories.

Miss Stavers, but there will be a mandatory pro-tem insurance adjustment.

The Trampy Co-Ed is the first to die, but only after the mandatory semi-nude swimming scene.

And since brachiation will be made all but mandatory by your new, stooped posture and lengthened forelimbs, this may be viewed as something of a hidden blessing.

Then the driver, having completed his mandatory flirtation with the bucktooth waitress, gave the bus horn a sharp blast.

Abigail trotted toward the grassy island in the middle of the street, which held that mandatory southern town centerpiece, the Civil War monument.

Coming to this end of the field now, getting closer, breaking stride now, walking: Jose Chirino and Luis Linares, Chino and Lulu, husband and wife, both little guys, both doing a mandatory twenty-five for murder.

Christian Scientists, being men and women, can not continue to grow if fettered with an Index Expurgatorius and mandatory edicts and encyclicals.

Wintrow was on the foredeck, spending his mandatory evening hour with Vivacia.

The whole Port Washington Tennis Academy student body gets free and mandatory Wilson sticks under an administrative contract.

But as the teams meet on the field for brief conference, their heads bowing then in the mandatory prayer and exercises of reemission, as he feels an uncharacteristic excitement begin to spread through him, working its way from thighs which seem to blend into his loins with a kind of mutual, aqueous excitement Scop wonders if this is quite the truth.

The occasional sweeps stunt is mandatory to keep viewership levels high.

Inspections would have to become mandatory for all traffic flowing into or out of Iraq.

By the time of Caesar, the practice of confarreatio was confined to patricians, and then was not mandatory.