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requirement
CIDE DICTIONARY
requirement, n.
- The act of requiring; demand; requisition. [1913 Webster]
- That which is required; an imperative or authoritative command; an essential condition; something needed or necessary; a need. [1913 Webster]"One of those who believe that they can fill up every requirement contained in the rule of righteousness." [1913 Webster]"God gave her the child, and gave her too an instinctive knowledge of its nature and requirements." [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
requirement
bare necessities, blackmail, call, call for, claim, condition, contribution, demand, demand for, desideration, desideratum, draft, drain, duty, essential, essentials, exaction, extortion, extortionate demand, heavy demand, imposition, impost, indent, indispensable, insistent demand, levy, must, must item, necessaries, necessities, necessity, need, need for, nonnegotiable demand, notice, occasion, order, precondition, prerequirement, prerequisite, provision, proviso, qualification, requisite, requisition, rush, rush order, sine qua non, stipulation, tax, taxing, the necessary, the needful, tribute, ultimatum, want, warningROGET THESAURUS
requirement
Requirement
N requirement, need, wants, necessities, necessaries, necessaries of life, stress, exigency, pinch, sine qua non, matter of necessity, case of need, case of life or death, needfulness, essentiality, necessity, indispensability, urgency, requisition, run upon, demand, call for, charge, claim, command, injunction, mandate, order, precept, desideratum, want, Adj, required, requisite, needful, necessary, imperative, essential, indispensable, prerequisite, called for, in demand, in request, urgent, exigent, pressing, instant, crying, absorbing, in want of, destitute of, ex necessitate rei, of necessity, there is no time to lose, it cannot be spared, it cannot be dispensed with, mendacem memorem esse oportet, necessitas non habet legem, nec tecum possum trivere nec sine te.Command
N command, order, ordinance, act, fiat, hukm, bidding, dictum, hest, behest, call, beck, nod, despatch, dispatch, message, direction, injunction, charge, instructions, appointment, fixture, demand, exaction, imposition, requisition, claim, reclamation, revendication, ultimatum, request, requirement, dictation, dictate, mandate, caveat, decree, senatus consultum, precept, prescript, rescript, writ, ordination, bull, ex cathedra pronouncement, edict, decretal, dispensation, prescription, brevet, placit, ukase, ukaz, firman, hatti- sherif, warrant, passport, mittimus, mandamus, summons, subpoena, nisi prius, interpellation, citation, word, word of command, mot d'ordre, bugle call, trumpet call, beat of drum, tattoo, order of the day, enactment, plebiscite, commanding, authoritative, decretory, decretive, decretal, callable, jussive, in a commanding tone, by a stroke of the pen, by a dash of the pen, by order, at beat of drum, on the first summons, the decree is gone forth, sic volo sic jubeo, le Roi le veut, boutez en avant.For further exploring for "requirement" in Webster Dictionary Online