Usually means: Required by law or rules.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word mandatorily:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. mandatorily: Merriam-Webster
  2. mandatorily: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mandatorily: Collins English Dictionary
  4. mandatorily: Vocabulary.com
  5. Mandatorily, mandatorily: Wordnik
  6. mandatorily: Wiktionary
  7. mandatorily: Dictionary.com
  8. mandatorily: Rhymezone
  9. mandatorily: FreeDictionary.org
  10. mandatorily: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. mandatorily: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mandatorily: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. mandatorily: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mandatorily: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mandatorily)

▸ adverb:  In a mandatory manner; not optionally; required.

Similar:
obligatorily, compulsorily, nonoptionally, compulsatorily, nonmandatorily, obligately, obligatedly, optionally, compulsarily, necessitatedly, more...

Opposite:
voluntarily, optionally, facultatively

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Similar:
obligatorily, compulsorily, nonoptionally, compulsatorily, nonmandatorily, obligately, obligatedly, optionally, compulsarily, necessitatedly, more...

Opposite:
voluntarily, optionally, facultatively



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