require
Other forms: required; requires; requiring
Require means to need. You require food, water, and shelter to live, but do you really require that new pair of high-fashion shoes?
The verb require comes from Latin root words re-, meaning "repeatedly," and quaerere, meaning "to ask." The word lost the sense of asking and came to mean needing, demanding, or insisting upon something. The law requires that you attend school until you're sixteen; your parents probably require you to finish high school. If you're a waiter in a fancy restaurant and the food has been served, you might ask if your customers require anything else.
Definitions of require
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have need of
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require as useful, just, or proper“success usually requires hard work”
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claim, exact, take
take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
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govern
require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood
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draw
require a specified depth for floating
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cost
require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice
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cry for, cry out for
need badly or desperately
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compel
necessitate or exact
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consider obligatory; request and expect
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make someone do something
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command
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burden, charge, saddle
impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
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requisition
make a formal request for official services
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disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto
command against
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overburden
burden with too much work or responsibility
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bear down
exert a force or cause a strain upon
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deluge, flood out, overwhelm
charge someone with too many tasks
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adjure
command solemnly
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ban
prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure
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bar, debar, exclude
prevent from entering; keep out
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enjoin
issue an injunction
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criminalise, criminalize, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw
declare illegal; outlaw
Pronunciation
US
/riˈkwaɪr/
UK
/rɪˈkwaɪə/
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