Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To have as a requisite or necessity; need or depend on.
- transitive verb To stipulate as obligatory by authority.
- transitive verb To demand as obligatory or appropriate.
- transitive verb To impose an obligation on; compel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To search for; seek.
- To ask for as a favor; request.
- To ask or claim, as of right and by authority; demand; insist on having; exact.
- To ask or order to do something; call on.
- To have need or necessity for; render necessary or indispensable; demand; need; want.
- =Syn. 2–4. Request, Beg, etc. (see
ask ), enjoin (upon), prescribe, direct, command.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact.
- transitive verb To demand or exact as indispensable; to need.
- transitive verb To ask as a favor; to request.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb have need of
- verb make someone do something
- verb consider obligatory; request and expect
- verb require as useful, just, or proper
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Socialism, which require, on one hand, that we lay the foundation for the Socialist organization of emulation, and, on the other hand, _require the use of compulsion so that the slogan of the dictatorship of the proletariat should not be weakened by the practice of a too mild proletarian government_.
Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy John Spargo 1921
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Not all uses of the term require reference to a divinity or divinities.
Religion and Morality Hare, John 2006
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Why, for example, does the definition require that a map depict data over time?
Managing New Product and Process Development Kim B. Clark 1993
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The word "require" appears 811 times in the 244-page rule and its 103-page supplement.
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For this crazy idea to stick, we require a Latin word *handus, but as the reader can tell by the asterisk, it doesn't exist at least as far as I know.
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For this crazy idea to stick, we require a Latin word *handus, but as the reader can tell by the asterisk, it doesn't exist at least as far as I know.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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The auto insurance requirement that most states require is a poor analogy to the health care mandate for a number of reasons.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Health insurance mandate as a privacy right violation 2010
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I say all this to say that if you should try this “Rauchwein” and not find it to your liking, all that it might require is an appropriate food pairing.
Earth, wind and fire: tasting the terroir, Sonoma, 2008 | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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In the end, I think, what we require is a new mind set, one which grasps afresh that architecture isn't just about aesthetics.
Guy Horton: Architecture's Terror and Wonder: A Conversation with Blair Kamin Guy Horton 2010
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"All it's going to require is for those guys to do their normal competitions," Jarrett says.
Demong, Lodwick carry USA's Nordic combined medal hopes 2010
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