Mandatory vs Legally - What's the difference?
mandatory | legally |
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 permitted by law; not contrary to law.
From a legal perspective.
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)- 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
*legally
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- You can legally park in the lot on weekends without paying the fee, they won't ticket you.
- Legally , I think you are covered, but there are angry guys with baseball bats outside.