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Required   /rikwˈaɪərd/  /rikwˈaɪrd/   Listen
Required

adjective
1.
Necessary for relief or supply.  Synonyms: needed, needful, requisite.
2.
Required by rule.  Synonyms: compulsory, mandatory.  "Attendance is mandatory" , "Required reading"



Require

verb
(past & past part. required; pres. part. requiring)
1.
Require as useful, just, or proper.  Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, take.  "Success usually requires hard work" , "This job asks a lot of patience and skill" , "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice" , "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert" , "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"  Antonym: obviate.
2.
Consider obligatory; request and expect.  Synonyms: ask, expect.  "Aren't we asking too much of these children?" , "I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons"
3.
Make someone do something.  Synonym: command.
4.
Have need of.  Synonyms: need, want.



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"Required" Quotes from Famous Books



... was only too natural, much surprised, when he told her that his letters required her help. She looked still more so when she found how inadequate were their contents to account for ...
— A Fountain Sealed • Anne Douglas Sedgwick

... Acts on the Statute Book required Nonconformists to subscribe to the religion of the Church of England before taking part in municipal affairs, these Acts had long been a dead letter. All that was done in the nineteenth century was ...
— The Rise of the Democracy • Joseph Clayton

... It required the combined efforts of Whimple, Epstein, and Watson to persuade William to take a two weeks' holiday before returning to work. He didn't want to go to the country: knew he would die after two days ...
— William Adolphus Turnpike • William Banks

... Father, aided Maria Becraft, Vashon, George B., principal of Avery College, Vermont, required practically no segregation, Vesey, Denmark, effect of the insurrection of, Vesey, Reverend, interest of, in Neau's school, Virginia, question of instructing Negroes of, education of Negroes of, given legal sanction, colored schools of, work of abolitionists ...
— The Education Of The Negro Prior To 1861 • Carter Godwin Woodson

... there was a slight change made in the arrangements of the hospital. The particular room in which she served was selected as being more airy and suited for those of the patients who, from their enfeebled condition, required unusual ...
— In the Track of the Troops • R.M. Ballantyne


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