Mandatory

Definitions: Mandatory

Mandatory

Adjective

1. Required by rule; "in most schools physical education are compulsory"; "attendance is mandatory"; "required reading".

Noun

1. A territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and inhabited by people not yet able to stand by themselves and so put under the tutelage of some other European power.

2. The recipient of a mandate.

Date "mandatory" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Computing	A grade to which a component or attribute of a class of data structure is assigned. A mandatory component shall be present in every instance of the class(1); a statement in a segment or message directory which specifies that a segment, a data element, a composite data element or a component data element must be used(2). Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
MAC	English	Mandatory Access Control	Computer - (MLS)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Mandatory

Synonyms: compulsory (adj), required (adj), mandatary (n), mandate (n). (additional references)

Domain	Usage
Clever	Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. (references; author: unknown)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Mandatory Package Mathematics for Elementary Teachers An Activity Approach with Manipulative Kit (reference) Mandatory Reload (reference) Handbook of Hybrid Instruments: Convertible Bonds, Preferred Shares, Lyons, Elks, Decs and Other Mandatory Convertible Notes (with CD-ROM) (reference) Dismissal of Tenured Higher Education Faculty: Legal Implications of the Elimination of Mandatory Retirement (The Nolpe Monograph/Book Series ; No) (reference) Practical Business Math Procedures: Mandatory Package with Business Math Handbook, DVD, and Wall Street Journal insert (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Mandatory Aircraft Modifications And Inspections Summary (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The mandatory pose at the entrance to Fort Jefferson.Credit: America's Coastlines.		PATHFINDER chiefs - the year following this picture, crew navy-style uniforms were no longer mandatory for crew and chiefs.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	The crew of the PATHFINDER - the year following this picture, crew navy-style uniforms were no longer mandatory for crew and chiefs.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		The crew of the PATHFINDER - the year following this picture, crew navy-style uniforms were no longer mandatory for crew and chiefs.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	His mandatory wives-- oh, Sam!.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	The wishes of these communities must be a principal consideration in the selection of the Mandatory. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		At laparotomy, a complete surgical exploration is mandatory. (references)
		The reporting of problems of efficacy and safety with monitors must be mandatory. (references)
		Hence, prospective monitoring of long-term complications in patients treated with laparoscopic cholecystectomy is mandatory. (references)
Business		School is mandatory through junior high for Mexican children. (references)
		Council Recommendations, unlike Council Regulations, are not mandatory. (references)
		In terms of negotiating, understanding differences in style is mandatory. (references)
Children	Estonia	The mandatory education period is 9 years. (references)
	Yugoslavia	The educational system provides 8 years of free, mandatory schooling. (references)
	Thailand	The 1999 regulation that makes compliance mandatory was not enforced during the year. (references)
Civil Liberties	Spain	Religious courses are offered in public schools but are not mandatory. (references)
	Peru	Teaching about Roman Catholicism in primary and secondary schools is mandatory. (references)
	Iran	Attendance at the schools is not mandatory for recognized religious minorities. (references)
Economic History	Uk	The latter is mandatory until age 16. (references)
	Brunei Darussalam	Nine years of education are mandatory. (references)
	Taiwan	A standard labor insurance program is mandatory. (references)
Human Rights	Belize	Trial by jury is mandatory in capital cases. (references)
	Mongolia	During the year, a human rights course became mandatory for all law students. (references)
	Guatemala	It provided for a mandatory 6-month training course for all newly appointed judges. (references)
Indigenous People	Australia	Controversy over state mandatory sentencing laws continued throughout the year. (references)
	Australia	The newly-elected government of the Northern Territory repealed the territory's mandatory sentencing laws in October. (references)
	Japan	Under an 1899 law, the Government pursued a policy of forced assimilation, imposing mandatory Japanese-language education and denying the Ainu their right to continue traditional practices. (references)
Minorities	Slovak Republic	Some Hungarians complain that, although they fulfill all the responsibilities required by the Government, such as payment of taxes, and mandatory military service, they still do not receive equal educational opportunities. (references)
Political Economy	CHILE	Sector-wide collective bargaining is allowed but not mandatory. (references)
	ISRAEL	Enforcement of mandatory standards on domestic producers can be spotty. (references)
Political Rights	Peru	Voting is by secret ballot and mandatory for citizens between the ages of 18 and 70; however, members of the armed forces and the police, as well as felons, are ineligible to vote. (references)
	Turkey	The country has a multiparty parliamentary system, in which national elections are held at least every 5 years, with mandatory universal suffrage for all citizens 18 years of age and over. (references)
Trade	Luxembourg	This is not a mandatory document. (references)
Travel	Cote D'ivoire	Use of a freight forwarder (transitaire) is mandatory. (references)
	Singapore	Singapore has a mandatory death penalty for many narcotics offences. (references)
	Canada	Seat belts and infant/child seat restraints are mandatory in all Canadian provinces. (references)
Women	Ghana	However, 1998 legislation doubled the mandatory sentence for rape. (references)
	Niger	National service was mandatory for all young women who have completed university studies or professional training. (references)
	Saudi Arabia	In addition the identity cards were not made mandatory for women, although some women applied for and obtained the cards. (references)
Worker Rights	Luxembourg	Membership is not mandatory. (references)
	Malta	Additionally a mandatory bonus of $110 (50 liri) per week is paid. (references)
	Hong Kong	There were no laws that stipulated collective bargaining on a mandatory basis. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Gerald Ford	1974-1977	I recommended months ago that the Congress enact mandatory fixed sentences for persons convicted of Federal crimes involving the sale of hard drugs.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	If we have a serious shortage, I will not hesitate to impose mandatory gasoline rationing immediately.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	Chicago stopped social promotion, and started mandatory summer school, to help students who are behind to catch up.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Mandatory" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.49% of the time. "Mandatory" is used about 972 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	99.49%	967	7,540
Noun (proper)	0.51%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	972	N/A

Expressions using "mandatory": mandatory age of retirement ♦ mandatory injunction ♦ mandatory minimum requirements for certification of masters ♦ mandatory minimum requirements for the training and qualifications of masters,officers and ratings of oil tankers ♦ Mandatory Reporting ♦ mandatory states ♦ Mandatory Testing. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "mandatory": non-mandatory.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "mandatory"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mandati, i detyrueshëm (enforceable, inalienable, indispensable, necessary, oblatory, obligate, obligatory, obliging). (various references)

Arabic		‏مفروض (decreed, enjoined, imposed), ‏تفويضي, ‏المنتدب, ‏الزامي (obligatory), ‏إنتدابي, ‏إجباري (compulsory, mandatary, obligatory). (various references)

Bulgarian		мандатен, задължителен (compulsory, forced, indispensable, must, obligatory, required), пълномощник (agent, assignee, attorney, commissary, deputy, employer, factor, mandatary, procurator, proxy, vicegerent). (various references)

Chinese		命令 (Command, Commanded, Commanding, Dictate, injunction, mandate, order, Writ). (various references)

Czech		mandátní. (various references)

Danish		præceptiv, obligatorisk. (various references)

Dutch		verplicht (compulsory), dwingend (compulsory), bevel om iets te doen (cease and desist order, restrictive injunction), bevel om iets niet te doen (cease and desist order, restrictive injunction), bevel om iets na telaten (cease and desist order, restrictive injunction). (various references)

Farsi		اجباری (Compulsive, Compulsory). (various references)

Finnish		määräys,jolla toinen velvoitetaan tekemään tai jättämään tekemättä jotakin (cease and desist order, restrictive injunction), pakollinen (compulsory, enforced, obligatory). (various references)

French		obligatoire (mandatary). (various references)

German		obligatorisch (compulsorily, compulsory, necessary, obligatory, requisite), zwingend (bludgeoning, coercible, coercing, coercive, cogent, cogently, compellable, compelling, compellingly, compulsive, compulsively, conclusive, constraining, exigent, forcible, forcibly, forcing, imperative, necessary, unassailable, urgent), befehlend (bidding, commanding, imperative, mandatorily, ordering). (various references)

Greek		επιτακτικός (imperious, intensive). (various references)

Hebrew		מחיב (affirmative, convicting, obliging, positive), מ� �"טורי, �"כרחי (essential, imperative, indispensable, must, necessary, obligatory, vital). (various references)

Hungarian		végzést kibocsátó, mandátumi meghatalmazás, mandátumi megbízás, feltétlenül szükséges. (various references)

Indonesian		bersifat perintah. (various references)

Italian		obbligatorio (binding, compulsory, incumbent, obligatory). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		自� 責保険 (mandatory vehicle liability insurance), 自動車損害� 償責任保険 (mandatory vehicle liability insurance), 強制保険 (mandatory insurance). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きょうせいほけ�" (mandatory insurance), じばいせきほけ�" (mandatory vehicle liability insurance), じどうしゃそ�"がいばいしょうせきに�"ほけ�" (mandatory vehicle liability insurance). (various references)

Korean		강� � (Coercive, Compelling, Compulsion, Compulsory, constraint, CONSTRAINTS, forced, forcible, Forcing). (various references)

Manx		anneydagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		andatorymay

Portuguese		obrigatório (binding, bounden, compulsory, enforcement, must, oblige, required). (various references)

Romanian		mandatar (proxy, representative), obligatoriu (binding, compulsory, obligatorily, obligatory), delegat (authorized, commissary, delegate, deputy, proxy, representative, substitute), care are un mandat, împuternicit (attorney, commissary, commissioner, proxy, representative). (various references)

Russian		обязательный (binding, bound, compulsory, obligate, obligatory, obliging). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mandatni, obavezan (beholden, compulsory, liable, must, obligatory). (various references)

Spanish		obligatorio (binding, compulsory, drafted, incumbent, obligational, obligatory, required). (various references)

Swedish		obligatorisk (compulsary, compulsory, obligatory). (various references)

Turkish		manda uygulayan, zorunlu (bound, bound to, coercible, compulsory, derigueur, enforced, essential, forced, forcedly, imperative, imperious, incumbent, indispensable, irremissible, necessary, obligatory, obliged, requisite, unavoidable, urgent). (various references)

Turkmen		hцkman (imperative, necessary). (various references)

Ukranian		уповноважений (assignee, authorized, commissary, proxy, syndic), обов'язковий (canonic, canonical, indispensable, obligated, obligatory, required), мандатний, повірений (attorney, procurator, proxy, solicitor). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Mandatory" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: madatory, manadatory, Mandatio, mandatorily, mandetory, manditory, mandotory, mendatory, Midnapore. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "mandatory" (pronounced ma"ndutô'rē)
6	-d u t ô' r ē	auditory, laudatory, predatory.
5	-u t ô' r ē	accusatory, aleatory, ambulatory, anticipatory, articulatory, celebratory, circulatory, compensatory, conciliatory, confirmatory, confiscatory, congratulatory, contributory, declaratory, defamatory, depilatory, depository, derogatory, dilatory, discriminatory, dormitory, excretory, exculpatory, expiratory, explanatory, exploratory, hallucinatory, incantatory, inflammatory, inhibitory, interrogatory, investigatory, laboratory, lavatory, migratory, nondiscriminatory, obligatory, observatory, oratory, oscillatory, participatory, preparatory, prohibitory, purgatory, reformatory, regulatory, repository, respiratory, retaliatory, revelatory, signatory, statutory, territory, transitory.
4	-t ô' r ē	desultory, multistory, repertory, understory.
3	-ô' r ē	allegory, category, outlawry, promissory.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: damnatory.
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-m-n-o-r-t-y"
	-1 letter: mandator.
	-2 letters: amatory, anatomy, dormant, drayman, madrona, matador, monarda, mordant, tanyard, tardyon, yardman.
	-3 letters: aroynt, datary, dynamo, mantra, matron, notary, random, ratany, rodman, yantra.
	-4 letters: adman, adorn, adyta, amort, anomy, antra, aorta, aroma, atman, atomy, atony, daman, damar, dormy, dorty, drama, manat, manor, manta, mayan, mayor, monad, moray, nomad, radon, randy, ratan, rayon, roman, tardo, tardy, toady, today, toman, trona, tryma.
	-5 letters: anoa, anta, army, arty, atma, atom, damn, darn, dart, data, dato, doat, dona, dorm, dory, doty, dram, drat, dray, maar, mana, mano, many, mart, maya, mayo, moan, moat, mony, mora, morn, mort, myna, nada, nard, nary, noma, norm, nota, orad, rand, rant, rato, raya, road, roam, roan, rota, rynd, ryot, tarn, taro, toad, tody, tony, tora, torn, tory, trad, tram, tray, trod, troy, tyro, yard, yarn, yond.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-m-n-o-r-t-y"
	+1 letter: amendatory.
	+2 letters: mandatorily.
	+4 letters: adrenalectomy, deuteranomaly, tetradynamous.
	+5 letters: aerodynamicist, antidromically.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 61 6E 64 61 74 6F 72 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-- .- -. -.. .- - --- .-. -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01100001 01101110 01100100 01100001 01110100 01101111 01110010 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#110 &#100 &#97 &#116 &#111 &#114 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 006E 0064 0061 0074 006F 0072 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
mandatory overtime	38
mandatory retirement	28
mandatory	24
mandatory drug testing	23
mandatory sentencing	20
mandatory school uniform	15
mandatory military service	11
mandatory minimum sentencing	10
mandatory minimums	8
mandatory overtime for nurse	7
mandatory reporting	6
arbitration employment mandatory	6
arbitration mandatory	6
mandatory profile	5
mandatory overtime law	5
mandatory sentence	5
mandatory direct deposit	4
mandatory voting	4
mandatory hiv testing	4
mandatory metallica	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Mandatory

Definitions: Mandatory

Mandatory

Adjective

Noun

Specialty Definitions: Mandatory

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Mandatory

Synonyms: Mandatory

Crosswords: Mandatory

Modern Usage: Mandatory

Clever

Commercial Usage: Mandatory

Books

Periodicals

Photo Album: Mandatory

Historic Usage: Mandatory

Treaty of Versailles

Non-Fiction Usage: Mandatory

Speeches: Mandatory

Gerald Ford

Jimmy Carter

Bill Clinton

Usage Frequency: Mandatory

Expression: Mandatory

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mandatory

mandatory overtime

mandatory retirement

mandatory

mandatory drug testing

mandatory sentencing

mandatory school uniform

mandatory military service

mandatory minimum sentencing

mandatory minimums

mandatory overtime for nurse

mandatory reporting

arbitration employment mandatory

arbitration mandatory

mandatory profile

mandatory overtime law

mandatory sentence

mandatory direct deposit

mandatory voting

mandatory hiv testing

mandatory metallica

Modern Translations: Mandatory

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Japanese Kanji

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Korean

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Romanian

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Turkmen

Ukranian

Misspellings: Mandatory

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Mandatory"

Anagrams: Mandatory