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verb, -quired, -quir⋅ing.| 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? |
| 8. | to demand; impose obligation: to do as the law requires. |