mandatorily
As legally required
Mandatorily means in a required or compulsory manner—by obligation rather than choice.
Employees are mandatorily enrolled in the retirement plan.
The adverb form of mandatory, it appears most often in legal, administrative, and policy contexts where compliance isn't optional.
By force of rule
- obligatorilyBy force of requirement
- necessarilyAs an unavoidable consequence
- essentiallyAt its core nature
- indispensablyIn a necessary way
unavoidably · inescapably · bindingly · imperatively · peremptorily · unconditionally · categorically · unequivocally
In lawful manner
- statutorilyBy enacted law
- legislativelyBy means of lawmaking
- officiallyWith authorized sanction
- governmentallyIn a state-administered manner
authoritatively · coercively · punitively · sanctioned · decreed · prescribed · dictated · imposed
In an official manner
- systematicallyIn organized, planned fashion
- routinelyAs standard practice
- standardlyIn the usual way
- uniformlyIn consistent manner
consistently · institutionally · bureaucratically · administratively · procedurally · organizationally · corporately · professionally
compulsorily
By force of rule
- obligatorilyBy force of requirement
- necessarilyAs an unavoidable consequence
- essentiallyAt its core nature
indispensably · unavoidably · inescapably · bindingly · imperatively · peremptorily · unconditionally · categorically · unequivocally · definitively
legally
In lawful manner
- statutorilyBy enacted law
- legislativelyBy means of lawmaking
- officiallyWith authorized sanction
governmentally · authoritatively · coercively · punitively · sanctioned · decreed · prescribed · dictated · imposed · constrained
formally
In an official manner
- systematicallyIn organized, planned fashion
- routinelyAs standard practice
- standardlyIn the usual way
uniformly · consistently · institutionally · bureaucratically · administratively · procedurally · organizationally · corporately · professionally · documented
mandatorilyoptionally
As a choice, not requirement
voluntarily · electively · by choice · freely · willingly
command, demand, mandate, demanding, recommend, commanding, demanded, commanded, commend