mandatory

About 5.69 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective obligatory; required or commanded by authority.

   Attendance at a school is usually mandatory for children.

2. adjective Of, being or relating to a mandate.

   Mandatory Palestine

3. noun A sign or line that require the path of the disc to be above, below or to one side of it.
4. noun A person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.

Similar words

obligatory compulsory required mandatary mandated obliged obligate obligation duty mandate

Often followed by

for retirement in and to that power minimum or

Word family

mandatories mandatorily