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adjective

Mandatory adj.

Containing a command; preceptive; directory.

Obligatory; compulsory; required by authority.

(Law) Not optional; not able to be modified or disregarded; as, seven mandatory clauses in the contract.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... in the future is almost certain to require a high degree of international cooperation and perhaps even a pooling of resources and funds to some degree. Already America has found it expedient, in some cases mandatory, to depend on facilities in other countries for her ventures into space. A good example is the close cooperation between the United States and tracking bases located in Canada, Australia, South Africa, and elsewhere. An even better one is the ...

— The Practical Values of Space Exploration • Committee on Science and Astronautics

... his youthful generosity, the poor Don could not have protected her. Too terrific was the vengeance that awaited an abettor of any fugitive nun; but, above all, if such a crime were perpetrated by an official mandatory of the church. Yet, again, so far it was the more hazardous course to abscond, that it almost revealed her to the young Don as the missing daughter. Still, if it really had that effect, nothing at present obliged him to pursue ...

— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey

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