compulsory
Engelska redigera
Adjektiv redigera
compulsory (kompareras med more/most; adverbform: compulsorily)
- uttal: kəmˈpʌls(ə)ɹɪ (brittisk engelska) el. kəmˈpʌlsəɹi (amerikansk engelska)
- obligatorisk, påbjuden
- The ten-dollar fee was compulsory.
- Avgiften på tio dollar var påbjuden.
- 1827, A. D. Jr., Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, A. and C. Black, s. 212: They are entirely private concerns, established by individual teachers, and attendance upon them is no more compulsory than attendance on our dispensaries.
- 1996, Ugo Pagano, Democracy and Efficiency in the Economic Enterprise, s. 73: Some might agree that membership in the firm is perhaps more compulsory than membership in a municipality, but balk at applying the analogy to the nation.
- Synonymer: mandatory
- Etymologi: Av latinska compellere (”framtvinga”) latinets compulsorius, av compellere, "tvinga fram".[1][2][3]
- Besläktade ord: compel, compulsion
- The ten-dollar fee was compulsory.