require
to have need of; need: He requires medical care.
to call on authoritatively; order or enjoin to do something: to require an agent to account for money spent.
to ask for authoritatively or imperatively;demand.
to impose need or occasion for; make necessary or indispensable: The work required infinite patience.
to call for or exact as obligatory; ordain: The law requires annual income-tax returns.
to place under an obligation or necessity: The situation requires me to take immediate action.
Chiefly British. to desire; wish to have: Will you require tea at four o'clock?
to demand; impose obligation: to do as the law requires.
Origin of require
1synonym study For require
Other words for require
Opposites for require
Other words from require
- re·quir·a·ble, adjective
- re·quir·er, noun
- non·re·quir·a·ble, adjective
- pre·re·quire, verb (used with object), pre·re·quired, pre·re·quir·ing.
- qua·si-re·quired, adjective
- un·re·quired, adjective
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How to use require in a sentence
It also required that ads print a disclaimer if they digitally altered the models.
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models | Carrie Arnold | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTBack when Sam went upstate, job searches required nothing more than a typewriter, some paper, and the classifieds.
His First Day Out Of Jail After 40 Years: Adjusting To Life Outside | Justin Rohrlich | January 3, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTInstead, black models are required to remain meekly, silently off stage, waiting for a turn that may never come.
One Vogue Cover Doesn’t Solve Fashion’s Big Race Problem | Danielle Belton | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThe rules change would have required all candidates to do the same.
But they refused to cross the street to help because, they told bystanders, the rules required them instead to call 911.
I've never had time to write home about it, for I felt that it required a dissertation in itself to do it justice.
Music-Study in Germany | Amy FayNot only are they required to do things in a proper orderly manner, but people have to treat them with due deference.
Children's Ways | James SullyModification in its terms growing in part out of these new conditions will subsequently be required from time to time.
Readings in Money and Banking | Chester Arthur PhillipsLamb with shaking fingers places the required amount in front of him.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsHow many times more would you have wished to be refused, and how many refusals would have been required to give me my liberty?
Confidence | Henry James
British Dictionary definitions for require
/ (rɪˈkwaɪə) /
to have need of; depend upon; want
to impose as a necessity; make necessary: this work requires precision
(also intr) to make formal request (for); insist upon or demand, esp as an obligation
to call upon or oblige (a person) authoritatively; order or command: to require someone to account for his actions
Origin of require
1usage For require
Derived forms of require
- requirable, adjective
- requirer, noun
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