Require vs. Mandatory — What's the Difference?

To have as a requisite or necessity; need or depend on

Required by law or mandate; compulsory

To stipulate as obligatory by authority

Variant spelling of mandatary

To demand as obligatory or appropriate

Required or commanded by authority; obligatory

To impose an obligation on; compel

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

(obsolete) To ask (someone) for something; to request.

Holding a League of Nations mandate over a territory.

To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively.

A mandatary.

Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary.

Obligatory; required or commanded by authority.

To demand of (someone) to do something.

Of, being or relating to a mandate.

To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.

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

To demand or exact as indispensable; to need.

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

To ask as a favor; to request.

Containing a command; preceptive; directory.

Require as useful, just, or proper;

Obligatory; compulsory; required by authority.

Consider obligatory; request and expect;

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

Make someone do something

Same as Mandatary.

Have need of;

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;