obligatory

UK /əˈblɪɡ.ə.t(ə)ɹi/ US /əˈblɪɡ.ə.tɔ.ɹi/

adj 2

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(adj.)

VERBS

be | become | remain

make sth

The new safety training became obligatory after the company made it a requirement for all employees.

ADV

almost, practically | legally

PREP

for

All employees must understand that attendance at the safety training is obligatory for their job.

Definitions

adj

Imposing obligation, legally, morally, or otherwise; binding; mandatory.

an obligatory promise

[…] if he speak the words of an oath in a strange language, thinking they signify something else, or if he spake in his sleep, or deliration, or distraction, it is no oath, and so not obligatory.

Requiring a matter or obligation.

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an obligatory promise

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[…] if he speak the words of an oath in a strange language, thinking they signify something else, or if he spake in his sleep, or deliration, or distraction, it is no oath, and so not obligatory.

Wiktionary

[I]t was something that every schoolboy of my generation almost `had' to do, as obligatory a proof of impending manliness as scrumping apples or pulling girls' pigtails.

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If school wasn't obligatory, I would stop going there.

Tatoeba · #739181

Presence of all members is obligatory.

Tatoeba · #897254

One may add matres lectionis when the word could be ambiguous, but surely it is not obligatory.

Tatoeba · #2005116

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