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Requirement   /rɪkwˈaɪrmənt/   Listen
Requirement

noun
1.
Required activity.  Synonym: demand.  "There were many demands on his time"
2.
Anything indispensable.  Synonyms: essential, necessary, necessity, requisite.  "The essentials of the good life" , "Allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions" , "A place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"  Antonym: inessential.
3.
Something that is required in advance.  Synonym: prerequisite.



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"Requirement" Quotes from Famous Books



... this diminishes intelligence. For in scattered farming communities, the districts must be so large under the double system that many families are out of reach of the school. And the number of towns that can have graded schools is greatly reduced by the requirement that no school shall receive pupils of more than one race. Normal schools are also made more difficult to maintain, and teachers' institutes rendered less efficient. A lower average of intelligence is as inevitable under such ...
— The American Missionary -- Volume 39, No. 08, August, 1885 • Various

... yet unpublished tragedy of Torquemada. The dwelling in the Grande Place became the haunt of all the proscribed republicans of France. Yet Belgium gave them but a cold welcome and grudging hospitality. They were subjected to a series of humiliating formalities, chief among which was the requirement of the authorities that each should provide himself with a permit of residence. These permits were temporary and revocable, and their holders were obliged to go weekly to ask for their renewal at the central police-office. ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. • Various

... facts in such a manner that they may not only "stick" in the pupil's mind, but that they may also be amenable to recall and practical application, and if we set our examination questions with some reference to this requirement, then I believe that we shall find ...
— Craftsmanship in Teaching • William Chandler Bagley

... however, this requirement, as applicable to the whole constitution, had not been inserted, and the convention were not bound by its terms to submit any other portion of the instrument to an election except that which relates ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 4 (of 4) of Volume 5: James Buchanan • James D. Richardson

... and early development of forms of government as will assist in explaining their process of growth. The plan of discussion is similar to that followed in "Government in State and Nation." The general favor with which that text has been received leads to the belief that it fully meets the requirement of the Committee of Five for such schools as present civil government in the third or fourth year of the course. In many cases, however, the subject is taught earlier in the course, and the present work has been prepared in answer to the ...
— Our Government: Local, State, and National: Idaho Edition • J.A. James


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