Usually means: Expressing a wish or desire.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word precatory:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. precatory: Merriam-Webster
  2. precatory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. precatory: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. precatory: Collins English Dictionary
  5. precatory: Vocabulary.com
  6. precatory: Wordnik
  7. precatory: Wiktionary
  8. precatory: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. precatory: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. precatory: Dictionary.com
  11. precatory: Rhymezone
  12. precatory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. precatory: FreeDictionary.org
  14. precatory: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  15. precatory: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. precatory: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. precatory: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. precatory: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. precatory: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. precatory: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (precatory)

▸ adjective:  Expressing a wish.
▸ adjective:  (law) Expressing a wish but not creating any legal obligation or duty.

Similar:
precative, beseeching, preëmptory, prefatorial, preclusive, prenunciative, prelusory, provisory, precursive, prælusive, more...

Opposite:
mandatory, obligatory, compulsory

Types:
request, beg, implore, entreat, beseech, pray, supplicate, more...

Phrases:
precatory words, more...

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Similar:
precative, beseeching, preëmptory, prefatorial, preclusive, prenunciative, prelusory, provisory, precursive, prælusive, more...

Opposite:
mandatory, obligatory, compulsory

Types:
request, beg, implore, entreat, beseech, pray, supplicate, more...

Phrases:
precatory words, more...



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