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requirement

demanded in accordance with set regulations: A degree is a requirement for the job.
Not to be confused with:
requisite – something that circumstances make necessary: A cool head is a requisite for a police officer.
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re·quire·ment

 (rĭ-kwīr′mənt)
n.
1. Something that is required; a necessity.
2. Something obligatory; a prerequisite.
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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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re•quire•ment

(rɪˈkwaɪər mənt)

n.
1. something required.
2. an act or instance of requiring.
3. a need or necessity: the requirements of daily life.
[1520–30]
syn: 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 that 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.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.requirement - required activity; "the requirements of his work affected his health"; "there were many demands on his time"
duty, obligation, responsibility - the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force; "we must instill a sense of duty in our children"; "every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty"- John D.Rockefeller Jr
2.requirement - anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"
thing - a separate and self-contained entity
desideratum - something desired as a necessity; "the desiderata for a vacation are time and money"
must - a necessary or essential thing; "seat belts are an absolute must"
need, want - anything that is necessary but lacking; "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants"
3.requirement - something that is required in advance; "Latin was a prerequisite for admission"
duty, obligation, responsibility - the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force; "we must instill a sense of duty in our children"; "every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty"- John D.Rockefeller Jr
precondition - a condition that is a prerequisite
academic requirement - a requirement for admission to or completion of an academic program
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requirement

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requirement

noun
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Translations
حاجَه، إحْتِياج، شَرْط، مُتَطَلَّبمَطْلَب
exigènciamenesterrequisit
požadavekpodmínka
kravbehov
vaatimus
zahtjev
követelményszükséges
krafa, skilyrîi
要求
필요 조건
cerinţăcondiţie
zahteva
krav
ความต้องการ
yêu cầu

requirement

[rɪˈkwaɪəmənt] N
1. (= need) → necesidad f
our requirements are fewnuestras necesidades son pocas, necesitamos poco
2. (= condition) → requisito m
Latin is a requirement for the courseel latín es un requisito para este curso, para este curso se exige el latín
it is one of the requirements of the contractes una de las estipulaciones del contrato
to meet all the requirements for sthreunir todos los requisitos para algo
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

requirement

[rɪˈkwaɪərmənt] n
(= need) → besoin m
to suit sb's requirements → répondre aux besoins de qn
(= condition) → critère m (requis)
the requirements for sth → les critères requis pour qch
What are the requirements for the job? → Quelles sont les critères requis pour le poste?
to meet legal requirements → satisfaire aux critères légaux
entry requirements → critères d'entrée
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

requirement

n
(= need)Bedürfnis nt, → Bedarf m no pl; (= desire)Wunsch m, → Anspruch m; to meet somebody’s requirementsjds Bedürfnisse erfüllen, jds Wünschen (dat)entsprechen, jds Ansprüchen (dat)gerecht werden; there isn’t enough bread to meet the requirementes ist nicht genügend Brot da, um den Bedarf zu decken
(= condition, thing required)Erfordernis nt; to fit the requirementsden Erfordernissen entsprechen
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

requirement

[rɪˈkwaɪəmənt] n (need) → esigenza; (condition) → requisito, condizione f (richiesta)
to meet sb's requirements → soddisfare le esigenze di qn
she meets all the requirements for the job → risponde a tutti i requisiti (necessari per il lavoro)
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

require

(rəˈkwaiə) verb
1. to need. Is there anything else you require?
2. to ask, force or order to do something. You are required by law to send your children to school; I will do everything that is required of me.
reˈquirement noun
something that is needed, asked for, ordered etc. It is a legal requirement that all cars have brakes which work; Our firm will be able to supply all your requirements.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

requirement

مَطْلَب požadavek krav Anforderung απαίτηση requisito vaatimus condition zahtjev requisito 要求 필요 조건 vereiste krav wymóg requisito требование krav ความต้องการ gereksinim yêu cầu 需求
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re·quire·ment

n. requerimiento.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
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I had made up my mind to do a lot of college requirement work in the summer, and to enter the freshman class at the university without conditions in the fall.
Marriage, like religion and erudition, nay, like authorship itself, was fated to become an outward requirement, and Edward Casaubon was bent on fulfilling unimpeachably all requirements.
"Because, in the first place, if the principle of election is to be the basis of a system, absolute equality among the electors is a first requirement; they ought to be 'equal quantities,' things which modern politics will never bring about.
In general, the impossible must be justified by reference to artistic requirements, or to the higher reality, or to received opinion.
(and, as his godson so soon to be, he might even command him) never from that time forth to travel without money and the usual requirements, and he would find the advantage of them when he least expected it.
He had detected the latent sensuality, which unfolded under his delicate sense of her nature's requirements like a torpid, torrid, sensitive blossom.
Finding the higher Orders wavering and undecided, the leaders of the Revolution advanced still further in their requirements, and at last demanded that all classes alike, the Priests and the Women not excepted, should do homage to Colour by submitting to be painted.
(heaven knows it is not exorbitant in its requirements!); for although I well know how hard it is for a man of genius with a seriously underrated subject to maintain serene and kindly relations with the men who underrate it, and who keep all the best places for less important subjects which they profess without originality and sometimes without much capacity for them, still, if he overwhelms them with wrath and disdain, he cannot expect them to heap honors on him.
I never saw her, but I have heard good as well as evil respecting her; and I imagine that, though cold and haughty in her general demeanour, and even exacting in her requirements, she has strong affections for those who can reach them; and, though so blindly attached to her son, she is not without good principles, or incapable of hearing reason.
And, since it ceased in the hands of the German to express the struggle of one class with the other, he felt conscious of having overcome "French one-sidedness" and of representing, not true requirements, but the requirements of truth;not the interests of the proletariat, but the interests of Human Nature, of Man in general, who belongs to no class, has no reality, who exists only in the misty realm of philosophical fantasy.
But these others, no doubt, answer to the particular requirements of the Nautilus.
The more requirements you can pile upon him, the better he likes it.

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