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Grammar : Adj
Spell : man-duh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmæn dəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i

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Définition of mandatory

Origin :
  • 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.
  • adj required, necessary
Example sentences :
  • Pentecost was one of the great feasts in Israel, and was of mandatory observance.
  • Extract from : « Jesus the Christ » by James Edward Talmage
  • Rock's advice carried a mandatory note which was not lost upon his auditor.
  • Extract from : « El Diablo » by Brayton Norton
  • But among the Hebrews the requirement was mandatory and imperative.
  • Extract from : « The Trial of Jesus from a Lawyer's Standpoint, Vol. I (of II) » by Walter M. Chandler
  • They asked that the mandatory should be England, but England had too much on her hands.
  • Extract from : « The Problem of Foreign Policy » by Gilbert Murray
  • March echoed, as people are apt to do with a question that is mandatory and offensive.
  • Extract from : « The March Family Trilogy, Complete » by William Dean Howells
  • German New Guinea (now a British mandatory) lies not far away.
  • Extract from : « The Pacific Triangle » by Sydney Greenbie
  • But in 1901 Minnesota enacted a state-wide, mandatory primary law.
  • Extract from : « The Boss and the Machine » by Samuel P. Orth
  • There is practically no limit to this form of mandatory boycott.
  • Extract from : « The Armies of Labor » by Samuel P. Orth
  • Again, the referendum may be mandatory or advisory in character.
  • Extract from : « Government in the United States » by James Wilford Garner
  • The Peace Conference seems to have given us a new word in "mandatory."
  • Extract from : « The Opium Monopoly » by Ellen Newbold La Motte

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