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The adjective mandatory, meaning 'obligatory', 'compulsory', 'binding', is traditionally pronounced in RP with the stress on the first syllable, and the other vowels very relaxed and indeterminate: 'MAN-det-ri', IPA: /ˈmæn dət ə ri/.
- In GA, and increasingly in Britain, the stress is on the second syllable, which has the vowel of 'late' and 'date', 'man-DATE-or-y', /mæn ˈdeɪt ɔ ri/.
- Sometimes the third syllable has a secondary stress, /mæn ˈdeɪt ˌɔː ri/.