required Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb require as useful, just, or proper
    call for; require; necessitate; involve; need; take; demand; ask; postulate.
    • 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
  2. verb consider obligatory; request and expect
    ask; require; 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
  3. verb make someone do something
    require; command.
  4. verb have need of
    need; require; want.
    • This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner
  5. adjective satellite necessary for relief or supply
    needed; needful; requisite.
    • provided them with all things needful
  6. adjective satellite required by rule
    mandatory; compulsory.
    • in most schools physical education is compulsory
    • attendance is mandatory
    • required reading

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