mandatories
- 1Plural of mandatory.
After the war, the mandatories administered the former colonies under international oversight.
The mandatories were required to submit annual reports on the regions they controlled.
Note
A plural that belongs only to the noun. The adjective, meaning obligatory or required by authority, never takes one. So mandatories names either the signs or lines that force a disc's path above, below or to one side of them, or, in a dated and rare use, those who receive a mandate. For that second meaning, mandatary is the alternative form. The -y becomes -ies, as in any regular plural.
mandatories is a form of mandatory
mandatory, noun: In disc golf, a sign or line marking a point that the disc's flight must pass on a specified side, above, or below. Full entry
- Forms
- mandatorymandatories plural
- Spelling
- mandatory → mandatories: change y to i, add -es
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