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require

[ri-kwahyuhr] / rɪˈkwaɪər /




Usage

What are other ways to say require? The verb require, which expresses necessity, occurs most frequently in serious or formal contexts: Your presence at the hearing is required. Successful experimentation requires careful attention to detail. Lack means to be without or to have less than a desirable quantity of something: to lack courage, sufficient money, enough members to make a quorum. Need often suggests urgency, stressing the necessity of supplying what is lacking: to need an operation, better food, a match to light the fire.

Example Sentences

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He goes on his computer each day from home, checks in and that’s all he’s required to do to get a full paycheck from the Los Angeles Unified School District.

From Los Angeles Times

Ministers previously said they thought more evidence was required but that threshold now appears to have been met.

From BBC

This change would obviously require someone else to step up to open.

From BBC

“A sustained move to new highs will likely require broader participation across tech and, at minimum, stabilization in software stocks.”

From Barron's

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan typically require cooperating witnesses to plead guilty to all the charges against them, corroborate the government’s allegations and admit to any other crimes they committed during their lifetime.

From The Wall Street Journal