Obligatory

Definition: Obligatory

Obligatory

Adjective

1. Morally or legally constraining or binding; "attendance is obligatory"; "an obligatory contribution".

2. Required by obligation or compulsion or convention; "he made all the obligatory apologies".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "obligatory" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1642. (references)

Etymology: Obligatory \Ob"li*ga*to*ry\, adjective. [Latin expression obligatorius: compare to French obligatoire.]. (references)

Compulsion

Adjective: compelling; Verb: coercive, coactive; inexorable; compulsory, compulsatory; obligatory, stringent, peremptory.

Duty

Adjective: obligatory, binding; imperative, peremptory; stringent; (severe); behooving; Verb: incumbent on, chargeable on; under obligation; obliged by, bound by, tied by; saddled with.

Crosswords: Obligatory

Books

• Celibacy in the Early Church: The Biginnings of Obligatory Continence for Clerics in East and West (reference)

• Occupational safety, health, and fire index : a source guide to voluntary and obligatory regulations, codes, standards, and publications (reference)

• The Sunna : Its Obligatory and Exemplacry Aspects (reference)

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It would declare that an act which, according to the principles and theory of our government, is entirely void, is yet, in practice, completely obligatory. (reference)

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The primary school obligatory upon all, the higher school offered to all, such is the law.

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Business

This is an obligatory marking requirement. (references)

Public schools also provide upper grades, but are not obligatory. (references)

Security equipment is obligatory when contracting car insurance in Hungary. (references)

Civil Liberties

Argentina

Article 270 of the provincial Constitution, in place since 1988, made the teaching of religion in public schools to minors obligatory so long as the parents agreed to the creed being taught. (references)

Cuba

However, in most of those cases approved for migration to the U.S. under the September 1, 1994, U.S.-Cuban migration agreement, the applicants eventually received exemption from obligatory service and were granted exit permits. (references)

Singapore

The Government deregistered and banned Jehovah's Witnesses in 1972 on the grounds that its approximately 2,000 members refuse to perform military service (which is obligatory for all male citizens), salute the flag, or swear oaths of allegiance to the State. (references)

Economic History

Costa Rica

Suffrage: Obligatory at 18. (references)

Bulgaria

A foreign currency account can be opened but it is not obligatory. (references)

Hungary

Measuring equipment is subject to an obligatory licensing/registration procedure prior to entering the market. (references)

Human Rights

Peru

Registration for military service remains obligatory for men aged 18 and older. (references)

Angola

Under the law, military service is obligatory, but recruitment targeted poor communities and unemployed young men. (references)

Minorities

Moldova

The 1989 language law reinstituted obligatory use of the Latin script. (references)

Political Economy

RUSSIA

An October 1999law implicitly allows majority-foreign-owned insurance companies to operate in Russia for the first time, but restricts their total market capitalization and prohibits them from selling life insurance or obligatory types of insurance. (references)

Trade

Turkey

Around 1,116 of the 15,563 standards are obligatory. (references)

Moldova

Romanian-language text on products imported and sold in Moldova is obligatory. (references)

Travel

France

At no time in France are tips obligatory. (references)

Yemen

Chewing qat is not obligatory but your host will be gratified if you give it a try. (references)

Spain

Since 1998, provincial codes, two or three digit codes beginning with 9, are obligatory even within regions. (references)

Women

Mali

Service in the armed forces is not obligatory; there is alternative national service available to both men and women. (references)

Pakistan

The Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry for Women has recommended that marriage registration (nikahnama) be obligatory and that women, as well as men, have the right to initiate divorce proceedings. (references)

Worker Rights

Poland

Arbitration is not obligatory and depends on the agreement of disputing parties. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "obligatory": facultative obligatory treaty ♦ obligatory anaerobes ♦ obligatory arbitration ♦ Obligatory forum court statute ♦ obligatory holiday ♦ obligatory military service ♦ obligatory notification ♦ obligatory reinsurance ♦ obligatory result contract ♦ obligatory standing committee ♦ obligatory wearing of seatbelts ♦ writing obligatory. Additional references.

Ending with "obligatory": non-obligatory.

Albanian

i detyrueshëm (enforceable, inalienable, indispensable, mandatory, necessary, oblatory, obligate, obliging), i detyruar (constrained, duty-bound, forced, indebted, induced, liable). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملزم (binding, bound, committed, engaged, obligated), ‏الزامي (mandatory), ‏إجباري (compulsory, mandatary, mandatory). (various references)

Bulgarian 

който задължава, задължителен (compulsory, forced, indispensable, mandatory, must, required). (various references)

Chinese 

强制 (Coerce, Coerced, Coercing, Coercive, Obligate, Obligated, Obligating). (various references)

Czech

závazný, povinný (compulsory, due, liable). (various references)

Danish

obligatorisk landing af fangsten (obligatory landing of the catch), obligatorisk anmeldelse (obligation of notification, obligatory notification), obligatorisk arkitektur (enforceable architecture, imposed architecture, obligatory architecture), obligatorisk genforsikring (obligatory reinsurance), obligatorisk sikkerhedsstillelse (compulsory security, obligatory provision of security), obligatorisk Verdenspostuniontraktat (obligatory Acts of the UPU), oplysningspligt (obligation to inform or explain, physician's obligatory information), obligatorisk fremmoede (obligatory attendance), retsakt hvis offentliggørelse er obligatorisk (act whose publication is obligatory), udbud paa basis af fast funktionsbeskrivelse (obligatory result contract), tvungen forsikringsordning (compulsory insurance, obligatory insurance, statutory insurance), den sikkerhed,som skal stilles (compulsory security, obligatory provision of security), tvungen iblanding (obligatory admixture, obligatory blending), tvungen indmaling (obligatory admixture, obligatory blending), lovpligtig forsikring (compulsory insurance, obligatory insurance, statutory insurance), graense for lovpligtig forsikring (limit of obligatory insurance), forsikringspligt (obligatory subscription), fakultativ obligatorisk kontrakt (facultative obligatory treaty). (various references)

Dutch

opgelegde architectuur (enforceable architecture, imposed architecture, obligatory architecture), obligatoire herverzekering (obligatory reinsurance), opkomstplicht (obligatory attendance), verplichte inschrijving in het register (obligation of notification, obligatory notification), verplichte inmenging (obligatory admixture, obligatory blending), verplichte architectuur (enforceable architecture, imposed architecture, obligatory architecture), verplicht affakkelen van afvalgas (obligatory flaring of waste gas), verplichte verzekering (compulsory insurance, obligatory insurance, obligatory subscription, statutory insurance), verplichting tot bijmenging (obligatory admixture, obligatory blending), verplichte zekerheidstelling (compulsory security, obligatory provision of security), aanbesteding met doelomschrijving (obligatory result contract), inlichtingsplicht (obligation to inform or explain, physician's obligatory information), herplantplicht (obligatory re-afforestation), facultatief verplicht herverzekeringscontract (facultative obligatory treaty), de vangst verplicht aan land brengen (obligatory landing of the catch), bindende akten van de UPU (obligatory Acts of the UPU), besluit waarvan de publikatie voorwaarde is voor de toepassing (act whose publication is obligatory), niet verwisselbaar (direction of flutes obligatory, non-reversible). (various references)

Farsi 

فرضی (Hypothetical, Supposition), واجب (Essential, Fundametal, Indispensable, Momentous, Necessary, Necessitous, Vital), الزامی , الزام اور (Imperative). (various references)

Finnish

velvoittava (binding), pakollinen (compulsory, enforced). (various references)

French

obligatoire (obliging). (various references)

German

obligatorisch (compulsorily, compulsory, mandatory, necessary, requisite), verbindlich (allying, binding, bland, combinable, compulsory, engaging, obliging, reliable, urbane, urbanely). (various references)

Greek 

υποχρεωτικόσ (accommodating, bounden, complaisant, compulsive, incumbent, obligational, obliging), υποχρεωτικός (compulsory, enforced). (various references)

Hebrew 

הכרחי (essential, imperative, indispensable, mandatory, must, necessary, vital). (various references)

Hungarian

kötelező (binding, compulsory, mandatory, regulatory, third party liability). (various references)

Indonesian

wajib (duty, must, obligation), fardu (religious obligation). (various references)

Italian

obbligatorio (binding, compulsory, incumbent, mandatory). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

義務的 (compulsory). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぎむてき (compulsory). (various references)

Korean 

의무 (Duties, Duty, Obligation, Onus). (various references)

Manx

kianglagh (binding, conditional, incumbent, tying), eignagh (cogent, compelling), eginagh (compelling, compulsive; rapist, compulsory, needy), boandagh (binding, incumbent). (various references)

Pig Latin

obligatoryay.(various references)

Portuguese

obrigatório (binding, bounden, compulsory, enforceable, must, required). (various references)

Romanian

obligatoriu (binding, compulsory, mandatory, obligatorily), obligator (binding, compulsory, obligated), obligativitate (coerciveness, compulsoriness). (various references)

Russian 

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

Serbo-Croatian

obavezan (beholden, compulsory, liable, mandatory, must). (various references)

Spanish

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

Swedish

obligatorisk (compulsary, compulsory, mandatory). (various references)

Turkish

zorunlu (bound, bound to, coercible, compulsory, derigueur, enforced, essential, forced, forcedly, imperative, imperious, incumbent, indispensable, irremissible, mandatory, necessary, obliged, requisite, unavoidable, urgent), mecburi (coercible, compulsory, enforced, enforcedly, forced, forcedly, imperative, imperious, indispensable), gerekli (essential, imperative, indispensable, material, necessary, needful, ought, requisite, wanted). (various references)

Turkmen 

hцkmany (compulsory, necessity). (various references)

Ukrainian

обов'язковий (canonic, canonical, indispensable, mandatory, obligated, required), облігатний. (various references)

Vietnamese 

cưỡng bách (imperative), bắt buộc (binding, compulsory, impellent). (various references)

Welsh

gorfodol (compulsory). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "obligatory": nonobligatory. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Obligatory" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Obligatoire, obligatto, obligitory, obliguatory, oligatory. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: tribology.

-2 letters: oblatory, obligato.

-3 letters: bigotry, biology, garboil, obligor, orality, orbital, trilogy.

-4 letters: agorot, aliyot, artily, bailor, galiot, galoot, glairy, gloria, gooral, gorily, latigo, oorali, otalgy, rialto, robalo, tailor, tribal, trigly, trilby.

-5 letters: aboil, abort, algor, argil, argol, argot, bialy, bigly, bigot, bilgy, biota, bloat, boart, bolar, boogy, booty, boral, borty, boyar, boyla, brail, broil.

+2 letters: astrobiology, bacteriology, obligatorily.

+3 letters: nonobligatory.