Usually means: Required by law or rules.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word mandatory:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. mandatory: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mandatory: Merriam-Webster
  3. mandatory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mandatory: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mandatory: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mandatory: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mandatory, mandatory: Wordnik
  8. mandatory: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. mandatory: Wiktionary
  10. mandatory: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mandatory: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mandatory: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. mandatory: Dictionary.com
  14. mandatory: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Mandatory (typeface): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Mandatory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. mandatory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. mandatory: Rhymezone
  19. mandatory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. mandatory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. mandatory: FreeDictionary.org
  22. mandatory: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. mandatory: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. mandatory: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. mandatory: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. mandatory: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. mandatory: Legal dictionary
  6. mandatory: Financial dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mandatory: Encyclopedia

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mandatory: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See mandatories as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  obligatory; required or commanded by authority.
adjective:  Of, being or relating to a mandate.
noun:  (disc golf) A sign or line that require the path of the disc to be above, below or to one side of it.
noun:  (dated, rare) A person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.

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