Liable vs Mandatory - What's the difference?
liable | mandatory |
Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable.
* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 34.
Exposed to a certain contingency or casualty, more or less probable.
Likely.
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.
As adjectives the difference between liable and mandatory
is that liable is bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable while mandatory is obligatory; required or commanded by authority.As a noun mandatory is
(dated|rare) a person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.liable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The surety is liable for the debt of his principal.
- The passion for philosophy, like that for religion, seems liable to this inconvenience
- Someone is liable to slip on your icy sidewalk.
Anagrams
* * *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