requirement Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun required activity
    demand.
    • the requirements of his work affected his health
    • there were many demands on his time
  2. noun anything indispensable
    necessary; requisite; essential; necessity.
    • food and shelter are necessities of life
    • the essentials of the good life
    • allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions
    • a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained
  3. noun something that is required in advance
    prerequisite.
    • Latin was a prerequisite for admission

WordNet

Re*quire"ment noun
Definitions
  1. The act of requiring; demand; requisition.
  2. That which is required; an imperative or authoritative command; an essential condition; something needed or necessary; a need.
    One of those who believe that they can fill up every requirement contained in the rule of righteousness. J. M. Mason.
    God gave her the child, and gave her too an instinctive knowledge of its nature and requirements. Hawthorne.

Webster 1913