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51obligatory — a. Binding, coercive …
52obligatory expenditure — The spending of the European Union, governed by such treaties as the Common Agricultural Policy and the European Regional Development Fund The European Parliament can add to the amount spent but if it wishes to reduce it, it must obtain the… …
53obligatory — adj 1. binding, obligating; commanding, exacting, demanding; compelling, impelling, forcing, forcible, pressing, constraining, coercing; unconditional, unqualified, categorical. 2. required, necessary, requisite, obligate; mandatory, compulsory,… …
54obligatory — oblig·a·to·ry …
55obligatory — adjective Syn: compulsory, mandatory, prescribed, required, statutory, enforced, binding, requisite, necessary, imperative Ant: optional …
56obligatory scene — a cliched and expected scene for a particular genre, e.g., a love scene in a romance or dramatic film, a shoot out in a Western, the solving of a crime in a mystery, a rescue in an action film, etc. Example: The famous waves churning embrace… …
57obligatory rights — See right …
58obligatory — adj. 1 legally or morally binding. 2 compulsory and not merely permissive. 3 constituting an obligation. Derivatives: obligatorily adv. Etymology: ME f. LL obligatorius (as OBLIGE) …
59Writing obligatory — Writing Writ ing, n. 1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs.… …
60make obligatory — index exact, force (coerce), impose (enforce) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …