OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 22682

mandatory

/ˈmæn.də.t(ə)ɹi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
mandatorio • necesario • obligatorio
obligatory; required or commanded by authority.
Attendance at a school is usually mandatory for children.
This kind of immediate control structure we take to be characteristic of the tribe, and it leads to a rather rigid type of system in which 'every action not mandatory is forbidden'…