Mandatory vs. Mandatary — What's the Difference?

Required by law or mandate; compulsory

A person or nation receiving a mandate.

Variant spelling of mandatary

One who receives a mandate.

Required or commanded by authority; obligatory

One to whom a command or charge is given; hence, specifically, a person to whom the pope has, by his prerogative, given a mandate or order for his benefice.

Of, having the nature of, or containing a mandate.

One who undertakes to discharge a specific business commission; a mandatory.

Holding a League of Nations mandate over a territory.

The recipient of a mandate

A mandatary.

Obligatory; required or commanded by authority.

Of, being or relating to a mandate.

(disc golf) A sign or line that require the path of the disc to be above, below or to one side of it.

A person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.

Containing a command; preceptive; directory.

Obligatory; compulsory; required by authority.

Not optional; not able to be modified or disregarded; as, seven mandatory clauses in the contract.

Same as Mandatary.

The recipient of a mandate

A territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they ar able to stand by themselves

Required by rule;