compulsory

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   required by rule

   in most schools physical education is compulsory

2. 2
   adj

   Required; obligatory; mandatory.

   The ten-dollar fee was compulsory.

3. 3
   adj

   Having the power of compulsion; constraining.

   Such compulsory measures are limited.

4. 4
   noun

   Something that is compulsory or required.

   Delobel and Schoenfelder failed to win the free dance, but they had built a big lead in the compulsories and the original dance.

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin compulsorius, from Latin compulsus. Displaced native Old English ġenīedelīċ.