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Compulsatory vs Mandatory - What's the difference?

compulsatory | mandatory |

As adjectives the difference between compulsatory and mandatory

is that compulsatory is enforced by or resulting from compulsion; employing force or constraint; compulsory 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.

compulsatory

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Enforced by or resulting from compulsion; employing force or constraint; compulsory.
  • * c.1599-1601 , , Act 1, Scene 1,
    • But to recover of us, by strong hand / And terms compulsatory , those foresaid lands / So by his father lost: ...
  • * 1810 , Louisa Sidney Stanhope, Di Montranzo ,
    • Shall I patiently await the return of the guard destined to seize Father Brazilio, destined to conduct him a prisoner to Rome, and likewise destined to obtain the packet once written by Father Luitfrido, and deposited by him in the hands of the Abbot of St. Romuald, and which the absolution of a compulsatory vow no longer rendered sacred?
  • * 1951', , '''''Compulsatory education in Australia: a study by the Australian national co-operating body for education ,

    • mandatory

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Obligatory; required or commanded by authority.
    • Attendance at a school is usually mandatory .
  • * 1999 , Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind , page 276
    • 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'.
  • Of, being or relating to a mandate.
    • Mandatory Palestine

    Synonyms

    * compulsory * obligatory

    Antonyms

    * (obligatory) optional * (obligatory) elective

    Derived terms

    * mandatoriness

    Noun

    (mandatories)
  • (dated, rare) A person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.

    • External links

    * * * Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary * The Oxford English Dictionary

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