prerequisite

After two years, students who entered the program having already fulfilled all of their general education prerequisites graduate with an associate’s of science degree in animal care and training.

She is in her second semester at Riverside City College, where she is taking prerequisite courses to pursue a nursing career.

"Public safety is really the prerequisite for success or failure."

The perceived bias of a reporter or organization is not a prerequisite for answering questions or entertaining them.

Though they offer different solutions, the populism of both the left and the right is responding to the erosion of the social and economic prerequisites for democracy and the rule of law in this country.