compulsory
adjective
required; mandatory; obligatory.
compulsorily
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a word derived from
compulsory.
Example Sentences
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After two months, one employee began compulsorily turning off every light in the station.
From Salon ● May 29, 2023
Seventy-five percent of them will be compulsorily retired after four years with no pension benefits.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 16, 2022
The residents were compulsorily relocated and the crumbling city, thought to be possibly the third-oldest in the world after Aleppo and Jericho, lay empty for the first time in 10,000 years.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 1, 2019
If you’re asking yourself how robots can “make good” on damages, don’t worry, they won’t own money—but they could be compulsorily insured, using funds they accumulate for their owners, Politico recently suggested.
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2018
Today the AT is a wilderness by design—actually, by fiat, since many of the properties Shaffer passed were later compulsorily purchased and quietly returned to woodland.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
