Nearby Words
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.
EXPANDto 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.
COLLAPSEChiefly 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.
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Requiring
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Origin:
1300–50; Middle English requiren < Latin requīrere, equivalent to re- re- + -quīrere, combining form of quaerere to seek, search for (compare quest)
1300–50; Middle English requiren < Latin requīrere, equivalent to re- re- + -quīrere, combining form of quaerere to seek, search for (compare quest)
Related forms
re·quir·a·ble, adjective
re·quir·er, noun
non·re·quir·a·ble, adjective
pre·re·quire, verb (used with object), -quired, -quir·ing.
qua·si-re·quired, adjective
EXPANDun·re·quired, adjective
COLLAPSEAntonyms
3. forgo.
3. forgo.
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Word Origin & History
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)
EXPANDto do (something)" is from 1751, via the notion of "to ask for imperatively, or as a right" (1380).
COLLAPSE
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