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requirement

[ri-kwahy^uhr-muhnt]

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noun

that which is required; a thing demanded or obligatory: One of the requirements of the job is accuracy.

an act or instance of requiring.

a need or necessity: to meet the requirements of daily life.

Origin:
1520–30; require + -ment

Related forms

non·re·quire·ment, noun

pre·re·quire·ment, noun

su·per·re·quire·ment, noun

Synonyms
1. Requirement, requisite refer to that which is necessary. A requirement is some quality or performance demanded of a person in accordance with certain fixed regulations: requirements for admission to college. A requisite is not imposed from outside; it is a factor which is judged necessary according to the nature of things, or to the circumstances of the case: Efficiency is a requisite for success in business. Requisite may also refer to a concrete object judged necessary: the requisites for perfect grooming. 2. order, command, injunction, directive, demand, claim.

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The insurance industry, in particular, has been fighting the requirement.

Progress requirement designed to punish delinquent students causes headaches for.

The requirement to fight piracy is one of the oldest bits of international law.

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The insurance industry, in particular, has been fighting the requirement.

Progress requirement designed to punish delinquent students causes headaches for.

The requirement to fight piracy is one of the oldest bits of international law.

Jalal gave up soccer in middle school because of the requirement to wear shorts as part of the team uniform.

We used to live near a gas station and they repeatedly violated to requirement to use the vapor recovery system.

The right stuff may be a critical requirement for astronauts.

In mild-winter areas, choose those with a low chill requirement.

The requirement would not apply to school buses and may not apply to used buses.

But eliminating the requirement did not appreciably reduce the waiting time or the failure rate, officials said.

The teaching requirement is two courses per semester.

Traditional marketmakers earned a spread in return for the requirement to provide liquidity in all market conditions.

Cattle are an essential requirement for getting a bride.

And then there comes the requirement of definition of energy.

Security of food is a basic human requirement and should not be taken for granted.

I've never heard about the cold storage requirement.

While a solid background in electronics is helpful, it's not always an absolute requirement.

The chapter here had to get a waiver of that requirement because demonstrations are against the rules for state prisoners.

At our school, being a full professor is a requirement for eventually having emeritus professor status when you retire.

Morocco is dependent on imported fuel and its food import requirement can rise substantially in drought.

But the land requirement sounds more daunting than it.

The addition of more complex power cycles would reduce this requirement and help enable frost free operation.

Another requirement was having the wall double as seating space so they, and guests, could observe the tortoise in comfort.

Universities should not eliminate the math requirement for all degrees.

He said he did not think allowing undergraduates to satisfy a course requirement at a community college diluted the requirement.

Our laptop requirement came only after several years of pilot projects that explored laptops' role in pedagogy.

On top of this requirement is the extra capital that banks would need to absorb losses from a recession or the debt crisis.

Anything beyond that is self imposed requirement and means little to nothing.

None of the judges said outright that such a requirement was necessary.

The requirement does not include women, but an attempt was made this year to change that.

Any employee who is unwilling/unable to fulfill this requirement will not be employed.

But he believes a professional licence could still be a useful qualification even if it was not a requirement for all managers.

It is true that neither theory explains everything but that is not a requirement for a theory.

Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.

In its place will be a requirement that for any new prescription or.

Undergraduates almost never use ellipses correctly in any essay they submit as part of a course requirement.

He also brushes off criticism of the requirement to source locally.

Nutritional requirement of expanding brain could have been met by our ancestors well through foods available in nature.

One requirement of this data-gathering effort would be maintaining the integrity of the data input.

There is no requirement that a new therapy be proven better than its predecessor before it is covered.

The only requirement is that the art be understood at once as national and international.

The bill removes that requirement for the next three years.

Apparently, critical thinking is not a requirement in evolutionary thought.

Alas, it also comes with the same requirement as any other fire: the smoke needs somewhere to.

There is no justifying a requirement that falls hardest on poor people and minorities.

Thus the college requirement of excellence in teaching and scholarship is a purely artificial construct.

Britain has no legal requirement for provision of toilets for the public at all.

Early detection and preventative medicine is a critical requirement that this system can enable.

The coding community is raring to go despite the requirement that they jump through extra hoops to get apps inside.

Many fear losing the foreign language requirement b.

Thanks to the requirement that they balance their budgets, states are furiously cutting spending.

But perhaps new incentives can be created so that post-purchase review becomes a standard requirement for transactions.

There's no better time to become acquainted with that requirement.

Many are afraid of losing the foreign language requirement.

So is the recent requirement that lobster-boat captains take a course every year in safety techniques.

But the requirement for government intervention makes the project unpalatable in the current polarised atmosphere.

Through deceptive marketing techniques, they've turned this requirement into a multimillion-dollar business.

Writing this self-study is a new requirement at my college and there is not much guidance in the policy manual.

In order to meet the residency requirement during the election, he had to forsake his country mansion for a downtown flat.

The increase in the mileage requirement is actually modest.

Heimbach said that the traditional requirement of an actual minor being harmed would hinder convictions.

Send cover letter, resume, contact information for professional references and salary requirement.

The legal requirement to buy an annuity has been weakened in recent years.

And the federal money that is available comes with a cost-sharing requirement that critics say is prohibitively high.

Some have doctoral degrees in education, but that's not necessarily a requirement.

There is evidence that arsenic may actually be a dietary requirement even for humans.

Waiving a foreign language requirement for students who simply cannot learn it has been going on for decades.

Once again, it is not a requirement of science to be intuitive.

In my way of thinking, it's not a good sign when a school asks for a minimum salary requirement.

The second requirement needs to be that the system has a negative reactivity coefficient.

The publication requirement has paid off in terms of placement, too.

Azure hosting platform and other cloud services in order to start up companies because of the zero capital equipment requirement.

Even teaching is not a requirement and only plays a role insofar as it furthers the inquiries of the scholar.

It may well be that shallow draft was an early requirement so that extensive testing could be done near the shore.

Many journals impose this requirement on genome-wide studies of.

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World English Dictionary

requirement (rɪˈkwaɪəmənt)

—n
1.	something demanded or imposed as an obligation: Latin is no longer a requirement for entry to university
2.	a thing desired or needed
3.	the act or an instance of requiring

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