All 4 Uses of
mandatory
in
Hunger Games Book #2 (Catching Fire)
- The thought of being left to my prep team's fashion whims only adds to the miseries competing for my attention—my abused body, my lack of sleep, my mandatory marriage, and the terror of being unable to satisfy President Snow's demands.†
Chpt 4
- Our Victory Tour interview with Caesar Flickerman was mandatory viewing.†
Chpt 10
- Usually we only watch when it's mandatory, because the mixture of propaganda and displays of the Capitol's power—including clips from seventy-four years of Hunger Games—is so odious.†
Chpt 11 *
- The teachers announced there was mandatory programming tonight.†
Chpt 12
Definitions:
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(1)
(mandatory as in: it is mandatory) required by rule or law
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely and historically, mandatory can refer to a League of Nations country that holds a mandate over a territory.