require

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English

Etymology

From Old French requerre (French: requérir), from Latin requīrō (“I require, seek, ask for”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈkwaɪə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈkwaɪɹ/
• (Canada, idle-idol split) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈkwʌɪɹ/
• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: re‧quire

Verb

require (third-person singular simple present requires, present participle requiring, simple past and past participle required)

1. To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively. [from 14th c.]
2. Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary. [from 15th c.]
3. To demand (of someone) to do something. [from 18th c.]
4. (obsolete) To ask (someone) for something; to request. [14th–17th c.]

Synonyms

• call for

Derived terms

Related terms

• requirement
• requisite
• request

Translations

Further reading

• “require”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “require”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “require”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• querier

Galician

Verb

require

1. inflection of requirir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Interlingua

Verb

require

1. present of requirer
2. imperative of requirer

Latin

Verb

requīre

1. second-person singular present active imperative of requīrō