Mandatory vs Authorization - What's the difference?
mandatory | authorization |
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.
(uncountable) Permission.
(countable) An act of authorizing.
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(countable) (A document giving) formal sanction, permission or warrant.
(government) Permission, possibly limited, to spend funds for a specific budgetary purpose.
As nouns the difference between mandatory and authorization
is that mandatory is (dated|rare) a person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary while authorization is (uncountable) permission.As an adjective mandatory
is obligatory; required or commanded by authority.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
Anagrams
*authorization
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Alternative forms
* authorisationNoun
(wikipedia authorization)- I've ''got'' authorization . Call the office and you'll see.
- Can I see your authorization ?
- We've had the authorization for years, but we've never gotten an appropriation.