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Mandatory vs Legally - What's the difference?

mandatory | legally |

As an adjective mandatory

is obligatory; required or commanded by authority.

As a noun mandatory

is a person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.

As an adverb legally is

as permitted by law; not contrary to law.

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.
  • Anagrams

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    legally

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • As permitted by law; not contrary to law.
  • You can legally park in the lot on weekends without paying the fee, they won't ticket you.
  • From a legal perspective.
  • Legally , I think you are covered, but there are angry guys with baseball bats outside.

    Antonyms

    * (as permitted by law) illegally

    Usage notes

    * Adjectives to which "legally" is often applied: binding, required, responsible, bound, married, entitled, possible, protected, enforceable, authorized, obligated, valid, invalid, registered, qualified, permitted, defined, mandated, dead, insane, blind, correct, prescribed, obliged, defensible, separated, divorced, wrong, effective, armed, incorporated, impossible.