MEANING
Required, authorized, or created by a law formally passed by a legislature.
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Words that belong together
- statutory duty
- statutory authority
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The review distinguished voluntary guidance from statutory duties.
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- Base
- statutory
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.
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