Mandate vs Mandatory - What's the difference?
mandate | mandatory |
An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
to authorize
to make mandatory
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 derived term of mandate.
As nouns the difference between mandate and mandatory
is that mandate is an official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept while mandatory is a person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.As a verb mandate
is to authorize.As an adjective mandatory is
obligatory; required or commanded by authority.mandate
English
(wikipedia mandate)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(mandat)Derived terms
* mandatary * mandator * mandatoryExternal links
* * ----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