prerequisite

Familiarity with or even interest in metal and its subgenres is not a prerequisite; these are human stories, involving enough on their own.

California law requires city and county governments to declare a local emergency within 10 days of a disaster as a prerequisite for requesting state or federal assistance.

The move was widely seen as a prerequisite for Skydance to win FCC approval and push the Paramount-Skydance merger over the finish line.

Moreover, it removed fandom as a prerequisite to entry.

Meanwhile, Paramount’s board faced withering pressure, with a settlement widely seen as a prerequisite for getting government approval for the company’s $8-billion sale to David Ellison’s Skydance Media, or the deal would collapse.