MANDATORY
Dictionary entry overview: What does mandatory mean?
• MANDATORY (noun)
The noun MANDATORY has 2 senses:
1. the recipient of a mandate
2. a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves
Familiarity information: MANDATORY used as a noun is rare.
• MANDATORY (adjective)
The adjective MANDATORY has 1 sense:
1. required by rule
Familiarity information: MANDATORY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• MANDATORY (noun)
Meaning:
The recipient of a mandate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
mandatary; mandatory
Hypernyms ("mandatory" is a kind of...):
receiver; recipient (a person who gets something)
Meaning:
A territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
mandate; mandatory
Hypernyms ("mandatory" is a kind of...):
district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)
Instance hyponyms:
Palestine (a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948)
• MANDATORY (adjective)
Meaning:
Required by rule
Synonyms:
compulsory; mandatory; required
Context examples:
in most schools physical education is compulsory / attendance is mandatory / required reading
Similar:
obligatory (morally or legally constraining or binding)
