compulsories
Saykuhm-PUL-suh-reez/kəmˈpʌlsəɹiz/
- 1Plural of compulsory. Use this when you mean more than one required part of a contest.
The skaters practiced their compulsories before the main event.
Every gymnast must finish the compulsories first.
Note
compulsories is a form of compulsory
compulsory, noun: Something you must do and cannot choose to skip. Full entry
- Forms
- compulsorycompulsories plural
- Spelling
- compulsory → compulsories: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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