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Require   /rˌikwˈaɪər/  /rikwˈaɪr/  /rɪkwˈaɪər/   Listen
Require

verb
(past & past part. required; pres. part. requiring)
1.
Require as useful, just, or proper.  Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, take.  "Success usually requires hard work" , "This job asks a lot of patience and skill" , "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice" , "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert" , "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
2.
Consider obligatory; request and expect.  Synonyms: ask, expect.  "Aren't we asking too much of these children?" , "I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons"
3.
Make someone do something.  Synonym: command.
4.
Have need of.  Synonyms: need, want.



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"Require" Quotes from Famous Books



... arcane, this will not even be that which is simple. In short, we cannot conceive any principle more simple than the one. The one therefore is in every respect prior to being. Hence this is the principle of all things, and Plato recurring to this, did not require any other principle in his reasonings. For the arcane in which this our ascent terminates is not the principle of reasoning, nor of knowledge, nor of animals, nor of beings, nor of unities, but simply of all things, being arranged ...
— Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato • Thomas Taylor

... never fear," said the captain. "I know to a nicety what you require. How say you now: if I was to carry him overseas to the plantations where they lack toilers of just such thews as his?" He lowered his voice and spoke with some slight hesitation, fearing that he proposed perhaps more than his ...
— The Sea-Hawk • Raphael Sabatini

... and hollow puffery. The notes added by the American editor are very scant, and yet so sensible as to enhance one's regret at their paucity and meagreness. Directions for the use of pigments and vehicles well enough adapted for the English climate may require modification for ours. Moreover, British artists have not unfrequently, in their methods, shown themselves too prone to sacrifice durability to immediate effect. The list of colors has, too, been enriched by some accessions within the past third of a century which demand mention. Such points should ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 • Various

... deceive even the Government at Washington. Else why a prolongation of the war? They ought to know that, under almost any conceivable adverse circumstances, we can maintain the war twenty years. And if our lines should be everywhere broken, and our country overrun—it would require a half million soldiers to hold us down, and this would cost the United States ...
— A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital • John Beauchamp Jones

... as paper, then roll it on a clean linen cloth still thinner, and leave it a quarter of an hour to dry. Then fold the paste, press it very tightly together, and with a tin cylinder, not larger in diameter than a cent, cut out, with considerable pressure, as many small disks as you require to allow five or six to each plate of soup. Have ready in a small saucepan some smoking hot lard. Drop the disks in; they will puff and swell till they are like marbles. Stir them, and take them out of the fat; they require only a few seconds to brown, and must be taken out very pale. ...
— Choice Cookery • Catherine Owen


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