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mandatory

adjective

Reveal meaning and examples

Required by a rule, instruction, or authority.

The registration form explained which fields were mandatory.

Dictionary practice example.

Compliance with the weighing rule was mandatory for officials, so individual inspectors could not simply choose a different standard.