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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb Require has 4 senses

• require(v = verb.stative) ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, take - require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "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"
Derived form noun requirement₁
Sample sentences:
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
It ----s that CLAUSE

• require(v = verb.communication) ask, expect - consider obligatory; request and expect; "We require our secretary to be on time"; "Aren't we asking too much of these children?"; "I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons"
is one way to demand
Derived form noun requirement₁
Sample sentence:
They Require him to write the letter

• require(v = verb.communication) command - make someone do something; Array
is one way to enjoin, order, say, tell
Derived form noun requisition₁
Sample sentence:
They Require him to write the letter

• require(v = verb.consumption) need, want - have need of; "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"
is one way to be
Derived form noun requirement₂
Sample sentences:
They Require more bread
They Require him to write the letter

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THESAURUS

Require

affect, appoint, ask, ask for, assess, assume, authorize, be hurting for, be indicated, bind, blackmail, bring, brook no denial, call, call for, challenge, charge, charge for, claim, clamor for, coerce, command, commit, comprise, contain, crave, cry for, cry out for, demand, desire, dictate, entail, exact, extort, force, have occasion for, implicate, imply, impose, indent, insist, instruct, involve, issue an ultimatum, lack, lay down, lead to, leave no option, levy, make, make a demand, make dutiable, make imperative, make incumbent, make obligatory, miss, necessitate, need, obligate, oblige, order, order up, place an order, pledge, postulate, prerequire, prescribe, presume, presuppose, pro rata, prorate, put in requisition, requisition, run short of, saddle with, screw, set, solicit, stick for, subsume, take, take doing, take in, take no denial, tax, tie, tithe, want, want doing, warn

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Require

Requirement

VB require, need, want, have occasion for, not be able to do without, not be able to dispense with, prerequire, render necessary, necessitate, create a, necessity for, call for, put in requisition, make a requisition, stand in need of, lack, desiderate, desire, be necessary Adj.

Insufficiency

VB be insufficient, not suffice, come short of, run dry, want, lack, need, require, caret, be in want, live from hand to mouth, render insufficient Adj, drain of resources, impoverish, stint, put on short allowance, do insufficiently, scotch the snake.

Compulsion

VB compel, force, make, drive, coerce, constrain, enforce, necessitate, oblige, force upon, press, cram down the throat, thrust down the throat, force down the throat, say it must be done, make a point of, insist upon, take no denial, put down, dragoon, extort, wring from, squeeze, put on the squeeze, put on the screws, turn on the screw, drag into, bind, bind over, pin down, tie down, require, tax, put in force, commandeer, restrain.

Price

VB bear a price, set a price, fix a price, appraise, assess, doom, price, charge, demand, ask, require, exact, run up, distrain, run up a bill, have one's price, liquidate, amount to, come to, mount up to, stand one in, fetch, sell for, cost, bring in, yield, afford.

Dueness

VB be due, to, be the due, of, have right to, have title to, have claim to, be entitled to, have a claim upon, belong to, deserve, merit, be worthy of, richly deserve, demand, claim, call upon for, come upon for, appeal to for, revendicate, reclaim, exact, insist on, insist upon, challenge, take one's stand, make a point of, require, lay claim to, assert, assume, arrogate, make good, substantiate, vindicate a claim, vindicate a right, fit for, qualify for, make out a case, give a right, confer a right, entitle, authorize, sanctify, legalize, ordain, prescribe, allot, give every one his due, pay one's dues, have one's due, have one's rights, use a right, assert, enforce, put in force, lay under contribution.

Duty

VB be the duty of, be incumbent, on, be responsible, behoove, become, befit, beseem, belong to, pertain to, fall to one's lot, devolve on, lie upon, lie on one's head, lie at one's door, rest with, rest on the shoulders of, take upon oneself, be bound to, become bound to, be sponsor for, become sponsor for, incur a responsibility, be under an obligation, stand under an obligation, lie under an obligation, have to answer for, owe to it oneself, impose a duty enjoin, require, exact, bind, bind over, saddle with, prescribe, assign, call upon, look to, oblige, enter upon a duty, perform a duty, observe a duty, fulfill a duty, discharge a duty, adhere to a duty, acquit oneself of a duty, satisfy a duty, enter upon an obligation, perform an obligation, observe an obligation, fulfill an obligation, discharge an obligation, adhere to an obligation, acquit oneself of an obligation, satisfy an obligation, act one's part, redeem one's pledge, do justice to, be at one's post, do duty, do one's duty, be on one's good behavior, mind one's P's and Q's.

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