| Subject | English | Arabic |
| econ. | imperative circumstances | ظروف حتمية |
| econ. | imperative circumstances | ظروف قهرية |
| econ. | imperative needs | احتياجات ماسة |
| econ. | imperative reason | سبب قَهْرِيّ |
| comp., MS | imperative security check | تدقيق أمن إلزامي (A security check that occurs when a security method is called within the code that is being protected. This type of check can be data-driven and can be isolated to a single location within an object or method. For example, if the name of a file to be protected is known only at run time, an imperative security check can be invoked by passing the file name as a parameter to a security method) |