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Prerequisite   /prɪrˈɛkwəzət/   Listen
noun
Prerequisite  n.  Something previously required, or necessary to an end or effect proposed. "The necessary prerequisites of freedom."



adjective
Prerequisite  adj.  Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Prerequisite" Quotes from Famous Books



... never forget that summer—and we commenced making our annual preparations for Saratoga. Money was, of course, an indispensable prerequisite. I asked ...
— All's for the Best • T. S. Arthur

... which provided for calling forth the militia "to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions" required, as a prerequisite to the exercise of this power, "that an associate justice, or the judge of the district, should certify that the laws of the United States were opposed, or their execution obstructed, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary ...
— Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2 • John Frederick Schroeder and Benson John Lossing

... be legally executed, and the confession to be valid must be attested by the thumb-print of the prisoner. No direct coercion is employed to secure this; a contumacious culprit may, however, be tortured until he performs the act which is a prerequisite to his execution. Digital signatures are sometimes required in the army to prevent personation; the general in command at Wenchow enforces it on all his troops. A document thus attested can no more be forged or repudiated than a photograph—not so ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 360, November 25, 1882 • Various

... supporters of the new regime were far from agreed as to the kind of republic, federal or (p. 610) centralized, that should be established;[843] the republican leaders were mutually jealous and prone to profitless theorizing; the nation was lacking in the experience which is a prerequisite of self-government.[844] At home the republic was opposed by the monarchists of the various groups, by the clergy, and by the extreme particularists, and abroad it won the recognition of not one nation save the United States. The presidency of ...
— The Governments of Europe • Frederic Austin Ogg

... hands Mosaism became spiritualized until it really lost its identity, and was transformed into a code fit for the whole Roman world. And we do not doubt that if any one had asked Jesus whether circumcision were an essential prerequisite for admission to the Messianic kingdom, he would have given the same answer which Paul afterwards gave. We agree with Zeller and Strauss that, "as Luther was a more liberal spirit than the Lutheran divines ...
— The Unseen World and Other Essays • John Fiske


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