requirement


requirement
I noun adjuration, behest, bidding, call, claim, command, commandment, compulsion, conscription, constraint, decree, decretal, demand, dictate, direction, directive, edict, enforcement, enjoinment, essential, essential desideratum, exaction, exigency, extremity, flat, imperative, imposition, indispensable item, injunction, mandate, matter of necessity, must, necessitation, necessity, need, obligation, obsession, onus, order, precondition, prerequisite, prescript, prescription, pressing concern, pressure, proviso, regulation, request, requisite, requisition, rescript, responsibility, ruling, specification, ukase, ultimatum, urgency, vital part, want, warrant associated concepts: requirement contract II index appointment (act of designating), article (precept), burden, call (appeal), call (option), canon, charge (command), claim (legal demand), compulsion (coercion), condition (contingent provision), demand, desideratum, dictate, directive, duress, enforcement, exigency, instruction (direction), mandate, market (demand), necessary, necessity, ordinance, precept, prerequisite, provision (clause), qualification (condition), request, requisition, sine qua non, ultimatum, writ

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  • requirement — (n.) 1520s, from REQUIRE (Cf. require) + MENT (Cf. ment). Related: Requirements …   Etymology dictionary

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