Recommended vs. Mandatory — What's the Difference?

To praise or commend to another as being worthy or desirable; endorse

Required by law or mandate; compulsory

To make attractive or acceptable

Variant spelling of mandatary

To advise or counsel

Required or commanded by authority; obligatory

To commit to the charge of another; entrust

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

To give advice or counsel

Holding a League of Nations mandate over a territory.

Simple past tense and past participle of recommend

A mandatary.

Mentioned as worthy of acceptance;

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;