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Advisory vs Compulsory - What's the difference?

advisory | compulsory |

As adjectives the difference between advisory and compulsory

is that advisory is able to give advice while compulsory is required; obligatory; mandatory.

As nouns the difference between advisory and compulsory

is that advisory is a warning while compulsory is something that is compulsory or required.

advisory

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Able to give advice.
  • The advisory committee could only offer advice, but since that was almost always accepted they had real power.
  • Containing advice; advising.
  • The consultant's advisory recommendations were selectively adopted.

    Noun

    (advisories)
  • A warning.
  • The Coast Guard issued a small craft advisory , warning little boats to watch out for bad weather.

    compulsory

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Required; obligatory; mandatory.
  • * 1827 , A. D. Jr., Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal , A. and C. Black, page 212:
  • They are entirely private concerns, established by individual teachers, and attendance upon them is no more compulsory than attendance on our dispensaries.
  • * 1996 , (Ugo Pagano), Democracy and Efficiency in the Economic Enterprise , page 73:
  • Some might agree that membership in the firm is perhaps more compulsory than membership in a municipality, but balk at applying the analogy to the nation.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Finland spreads word on schools , passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}
  • Having the power of compulsion; constraining.
  • Synonyms

    * mandatory

    Antonyms

    * (required) optional

    Noun

    (compulsories)
  • Something that is compulsory or required.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 22, author=The Associated Press, title=French Victory in Ice Dance, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=Delobel and Schoenfelder failed to win the free dance, but they had built a big lead in the compulsories and the original dance. }}