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re⋅quire

  [ri-kwahyuhr] verb, -quired, -quir⋅ing.
Use require in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to have need of; need: He requires medical care.
2. to call on authoritatively; order or enjoin to do something: to require an agent to account for money spent.
3. to ask for authoritatively or imperatively; demand.
4. to impose need or occasion for; make necessary or indispensable: The work required infinite patience.
5. to call for or exact as obligatory; ordain: The law requires annual income-tax returns.
6. to place under an obligation or necessity: The situation requires me to take immediate action.
7. Chiefly British. to desire; wish to have: Will you require tea at four o'clock?
–verb (used without object)
8. to demand; impose obligation: to do as the law requires.
Origin:
1300–50; ME requiren < L requīrere, equiv. to re- re- + -quīrere, comb. form of quaerere to seek, search for (cf. quest )

Related forms:
re⋅quir⋅a⋅ble, adjective
re⋅quir⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
1. See lack. 3. See demand. 6. obligate, necessitate.

Antonyms:
3. forgo.
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re·quire   (rĭ-kwīr')   
tr.v.   re·quired, re·quir·ing, re·quires
  1. To have as a requisite; need: Most plants require sunlight.
  2. To call for as obligatory or appropriate; demand. See Synonyms at demand.
  3. To impose an obligation on; compel: Students are required to attend classes.

[Middle English requiren, from Old French requerre, from Vulgar Latin *requaerere, alteration (influenced by quaerere, to seek) of Latin requīrere : re-, re- + quaerere, to seek.]
re·quir'a·ble adj., re·quir'er n.
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Require

Re*quire"\ (r?-kw?r"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Required (-kw?rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Requiring.] [OE. requeren, requiren, OF. requerre, F. requ?rir; L. pref. re- re- + quaerere to ask; cf. L. requirere. See Query, and cf. Request, Requisite.]

1. To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.

Shall I say to C[ae]sar What you require of him? --Shak.

By nature did what was by law required. --Dryden.

2. To demand or exact as indispensable; to need.

just gave what life required, and gave no more. --Goldsmith.

The two last [biographies] require to be particularly noticed. --J. A. Symonds.

3. To ask as a favor; to request.

I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way. --Ezra viii. 22.

Syn: To claim; exact; enjoin; prescribe; direct; order; demand; need.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : require
Spanish: necesitar, precisar,
German: brauchen,
Japanese: 必要とする
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require 
c.1300, "to ask a question, inquire," from O.Fr. requerre, from V.L. *requærere, from L. requirere "seek to know, ask," from re- "repeatedly" + quærere "ask, seek" (see query). The original sense of this word has been taken over by request. Sense of "demand (someone) to do (something)" is from 1751, via the notion of "to ask for imperatively, or as a right" (1380).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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