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VERB (4)

1. require as useful, just, or proper;
- Example: "It takes nerve to do what she did"
- Example: "success usually requires hard work"
- Example: "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"
- Example: "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"
- Example: "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"
- Example: "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
[syn: necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand]

2. consider obligatory; request and expect;
- Example: "We require our secretary to be on time"
- Example: "Aren't we asking too much of these children?"
- Example: "I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons"
[syn: ask, require, expect]

3. make someone do something;
[syn: command, require]

4. have need of;
- Example: "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"
[syn: want, need, require]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Require \Re*quire"\ (r?-kw?r"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Required
   (-kw?rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Requiring.] [OE. requeren,
   requiren, OF. requerre, F. requ?rir; L. pref. re- re- +
   quaerere to ask; cf. L. requirere. See Query, and cf.
   Request, Requisite.]
   1. To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and
      authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of
      property.
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            Shall I say to Caesar
            What you require of him?              --Shak.
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            By nature did what was by law required. --Dryden.
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   2. To demand or exact as indispensable; to need.
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            Just gave what life required, and gave no more.
                                                  --Goldsmith.
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            The two last [biographies] require to be
            particularly noticed.                 --J. A.
                                                  Symonds.
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   3. To ask as a favor; to request.
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            I was ashamed to require of the king a band of
            soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy
            in the way.                           --Ezra viii.
                                                  22.
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   Syn: To claim; exact; enjoin; prescribe; direct; order;
        demand; need.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

require
    v 1: 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" [syn: necessitate, ask,
         postulate, need, require, take, involve, call
         for, demand] [ant: eliminate, obviate, rid of]
    2: 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" [syn: ask, require, expect]
    3: make someone do something [syn: command, require]
    4: have need of; "This piano wants the attention of a competent
       tuner" [syn: want, need, require]