mandatory
A2CEFR level
20/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
Medicine adjective
Required by rule or law and therefore not optional.
Completion of the safety checklist is mandatory before the discharge letter is finalised.
Law adjective
Describing an injunction that compels a party to take positive steps, typically to undo a wrong already done.
The court granted a mandatory injunction requiring the trustee to reconvey the property he had wrongfully transferred.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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