Mandatory vs Mandated - What's the difference?
mandatory | mandated |
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.
required, mandatory
(mandate)
As adjectives the difference between mandatory and mandated
is that mandatory is obligatory; required or commanded by authority while mandated is required, mandatory.As a noun mandatory
is a person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.As a verb mandated is
past tense of mandate.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
*mandated
English
Adjective
(-)Verb
(head)- The precautions were mandated by a judge.