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compulsory

/kuhm-puhl-suh-ree/US // kəmˈpʌl sə ri //UK // (kəmˈpʌlsərɪ) //

强制性,强制,强制性的,义务

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : required; mandatory; obligatory: compulsory education.
    • : using compulsion; compelling; constraining: compulsory measures to control rioting.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural com·pul·so·ries.

    • : something, as an athletic feat, that must be performed or completed as part of a contest or competition: The ice skater received a higher score on the compulsories than on her freestyle performance.

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Examples

  • Respect for the principle of non-discrimination is more fundamental than ever since vaccination is not compulsory and access to the vaccine is not yet generalised.

  • Not all national supermarket chains have responded to the increasing demand for compulsory hazard pay bonuses with store closures or political pressure.

  • About 20% of the company’s 250 staffers were already remote before the coronavirus pandemic, but even when staffers who were previously in offices can safely return, attendance won’t be compulsory.

  • The compulsory spousal exchanges have created some of the tightest alliances ever recorded, currently totaling about 30,000 Amazonian souls.

  • In August, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison suggested on a radio show that he would make a vaccine compulsory for all Australians, though he later walked back the comments.

  • They had three years together before Ziad left to do his compulsory military service, leaving on her birthday, April 4, 2001.

  • It is compulsory to note in every Kansas story that “the race may decide who controls the Senate.”

  • The newest pro-gun propaganda: Make firearm education compulsory in schools and create gun-required zones.

  • Compulsory dues translate into many tens of millions of dollars in political contributions to Democrats.

  • At Nansen Elementary School, music has been removed from the curriculum and Arabic lessons made compulsory.

  • On nearly all railways retirement is optional at sixty and compulsory at sixty-five.

  • It was probably the first case in Philippine history of a person voluntarily seeking compulsory expulsion from the Islands.

  • By direction of the Ministry of Education, compulsory religious instruction is being introduced in the State schools.

  • It is more to count on the universal mind than to brave compulsory public decency.

  • The fact of compulsory education created a proletariat able and willing to read.