required
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
require/rɪˈkwʌɪə(r)/
▶verb
- 1 need or depend on.
■ wish to have.
- 2 instruct or expect (someone) to do something.
■ (require something of) regard an action or quality as due from.
■ specify as compulsory: the minimum car insurance required by law.
– derivatives
requirer noun.
requirer noun.
– origin ME: from OFr. requere, from L. requirere, from re- (expressing intensive force) + quaerere ‘seek’.
'required' also found in these Oxford entries:
accountable
- accoutrement
- allowance
- arrange
- axenic
- bank
- baseload
- basic
- batterie de cuisine
- before
- buddy
- Caesar
- campcraft
- carriage
- carvery
- cater
- chamber
- chase
- checklist
- common jury
- community sentence
- community service
- complete
- compulsory
- confusion
- countershaft
- courtesy
- critical mass
- cut
- daemon
- decency
- demand
- de rigueur
- deskill
- dilapidation
- Diophantine equation
- discharge
- discrimination
- disposable
- do
- documentation
- dodger
- due
- duly
- duty
- dwarf planet
- ecological footprint
- energy
- enough
- essential
