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C1If something is obligatory, you must do it because of aruleorlaw, etc.: (根据规定、法律等)必须履行的,强制性的,有义务的 Themedicalexaminationbefore youstartworkis obligatory.工作前必须先体检。 [+ to infinitive]Thestatutemade it obligatoryforallhealthymalesbetween 14 and 60towork.这条法令规定所有年龄在14至60岁的男子必须工作。 C2expectedbecause it usuallyhappens: (因为常发生而)必然的,预料之中的;惯常的 SeveralSecretServiceagentssurroundedthePresident, allwearingthe obligatoryraincoatandhat.几名特工围在总统四周,当然是一律穿着风雨衣,戴着帽子。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesCourt cases, orders & decisions - actionable
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See more results » You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Duty, obligation and responsibility Planning, expecting and arranging (Definition ofobligatoryfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)obligatory| American Dictionary(of anaction)expected,esp. because it is what mostpeopledo: Everybody who goes toEnglandmakes the obligatorytripto Stonehenge. (Definition ofobligatoryfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)obligatory| Business Englishif something is obligatory, you must do it because of aruleorlaw: it is obligatory for sb to do sthIt is obligatory formembersinpracticetoholdinsurance. The obligatoryretirementageis 65. (Definition ofobligatoryfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)Examplesofobligatoryobligatory The underlying dynamics of sibling relationships have been identified as balanced reciprocity, optional rather thanobligatoryexchange of support and the maintenance of personal autonomy.From theCambridge English Corpus To suppose that all formally valid laws are morallyobligatoryis a moral error.From theCambridge English Corpus Partial effects can be interpreted in terms of mutual (de)stabilization rather thanobligatoryinclusion.From theCambridge English Corpus Under most circumstances, few would expect anobligatoryrelationship between the activation of some eccentric retinal ganglion cells and the initiation of an eye movement.From theCambridge English Corpus The language exhibitsobligatorysubject-verb agreement, two pronominal genders (animate and inanimate), and morphologically marked tense-aspect, postpositions, definitization, and pluralization.From theCambridge English Corpus He was in favor ofobligatoryinstruction for children because he feared that otherwise parents would exploit them.From theCambridge English Corpus Quite obviously though, this is not an explanation ; the question was, why is coreferenceobligatoryin these constructions.From theCambridge English Corpus Take is usually a transitive verb, yet although it has anobligatorydirect-object argument, locative arguments are normally optional.From theCambridge English Corpus Incidentally, all this seems to indicate the special status of tense with respect to recoverability as theobligatoryrecovery in (15) above suggests.From theCambridge English Corpus As discussed above, a corollary of a trigger-centered theory of movement is that any movement is by definitionobligatory.From theCambridge English Corpus The object agreement marker, then, seems to beobligatory, while the subject marker is not.From theCambridge English Corpus They might insist, that is, that there are only negative duties and permissions, so that all acts of aid are supererogator y, notobligatory.From theCambridge English Corpus Nonetheless, this is a great book that should beobligatoryreading for comparativists interested in authoritarian regimes and transitions to democracy.From theCambridge English Corpus Such contrasts make the volume excellent teaching material and it will also beobligatoryreading for scholars.From theCambridge English Corpus While belief reassessment and epistemic peer conflict resolution are epistemically valuable and evenobligatoryfor many exclusivists, why think that they are so for all?From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/obligatory## |