Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Obligatory; required.
- adjective Employing or exerting compulsion; coercive.
- noun An element, such as a dive or school figure, required of all competitors in an athletic competition.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Exercising compulsion; tending to compel; compelling; constraining: as, compulsory authority; to take compulsory measures.
- Obligatory; due to or arising from compulsion; enforced or enforceable; not left to choice.
- Done under compulsion; resulting from compulsion.
- noun That which has the power of compelling; constraining authority.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the power of compulsion; constraining.
- adjective Obligatory; enjoined by authority; necessary; due to compulsion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Required;
obligatory ;mandatory - adjective Having the power of
compulsion ;constraining - noun Something that is compulsory or
required .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective required by rule
Etymologies
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Examples
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The term compulsory, if it has any meaning at all, means that the person has no choice about it.
Psychology Today < 2010
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The term compulsory, if it has any meaning at all, means that the person has no choice about it.
Psychology Today < 2010
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It recommends that governmental control over syllabuses be reduced and that the topics covered in compulsory mathematics education be made more rigorous, to encourage independent thinking and problem solving.
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And no wonder, when you consider just what is involved in compulsory school mathematics.
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So I was annoyed but not surprised to learn this week that: "State school pupils are set to be taught Islamic traditions and values in compulsory citizenship lessons."
Archive 2008-07-01 Not a sheep 2008
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After all, Israel has a rare commodity: more or less its entire young female population spends some time in compulsory military service.
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Taxes are immoral — and so is the idea of “national service” or “community service” or whatever they call the compulsory voluntarism flavor of the month.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Threat of Forced Labor Through Mandatory “National Service”: 2007
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Neodarwinism has a full protection racket – lawyers, tenured gatekeepers, journalists, and "expert witnesses" – who battle tirelessly to prevent criticisms of its Absolute Truth [TM] from being voiced in compulsory education settings or published in the scientific press.
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She also proposed long-term compulsory enrolment to community-based treatment programmes after release from prison.
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Government old age pensions should be retained as a non-contributory system but in the longer term compulsory provision should be introduced, the Smith Report on retirement provision in
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