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📖What it means
Something that must happen, with no discretion — the recording of a decision, the tagging of a droid, the criteria on a filing. What makes a rule mandatory is that something REFUSES when it is missing, not that a document says so.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Recommended
Mandatory is enforced by a refusal; recommended is enforced by judgment.
Not: Gate
Mandatory describes the requirement; a gate is what enforces it.
🗣️Also called
requirednon-negotiablecompulsory