Elective vs Mandatory - What's the difference?
elective | mandatory | Antonyms |
Of, or pertaining to voting or elections
That involves a choice between options; optional or discretionary
* Bancroft
* Dryden
Something that is option or that may be elected, especially a course of tertiary study.
Obligatory; required or commanded by authority.
* 1999 , Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind , page 276
Of, being or relating to a mandate.
(dated, rare) A person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.
Mandatory is a antonym of elective.
As adjectives the difference between elective and mandatory
is that elective is of, or pertaining to voting or elections while mandatory is obligatory; required or commanded by authority.As nouns the difference between elective and mandatory
is that elective is something that is option or that may be elected, especially a course of tertiary study while mandatory is a person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.elective
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- My insurance wouldn't pay for the operation because it was elective surgery.
- The independent use of their elective franchise.
- Kings of Rome were at first elective
Noun
(en noun)mandatory
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Attendance at a school is usually mandatory .
- This kind of immediate control structure we take to be characteristic of the tribe, and it leads to a rather rigid type of system in which 'every action not mandatory is forbidden'.
- Mandatory Palestine
Synonyms
* compulsory * obligatoryAntonyms
* (obligatory) optional * (obligatory) electiveDerived terms
* mandatorinessNoun
(mandatories)External links
* * *Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary*
The Oxford English Dictionary