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require
verb
1 require
Require as useful, just, or proper:
— Success usually requires hard work.
synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, take.
Roget 630:
require,
need,
want,
have occasion for;
not be able to do without,
not be able to dispense with;
prerequire†.
render necessary,
necessitate,
create a,
necessity for,
call for,
put in requisition;
make a requisition
etc.
(ask for)
765,
(demand)
741.
stand in need of;
lack
etc.
640;
desiderate†;
desire
etc.
865;
be necessary
etc.
Adj.
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Roget 744:
compel,
force,
make,
drive,
coerce,
constrain,
enforce,
necessitate,
oblige.
force upon,
press;
cram down the throat,
thrust down the throat,
force down the throat;
say it must be done,
make a point of,
insist upon,
take no denial;
put down,
dragoon.
extort,
wring from;
squeeze,
put on the squeeze;
put on the screws,
turn on the screw;
drag into;
bind,
bind over;
pin down,
tie down;
require,
tax,
put in force;
commandeer;
restrain
etc.
751.
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Roget 812:
bear a price,
set a price,
fix a price;
appraise,
assess,
doom [U.S.],
price,
charge,
demand,
ask,
require,
exact,
run up;
distrain;
run up a bill
etc.
(debt)
806;
have one's price;
liquidate.
amount to,
come to,
mount up to;
stand one in.
fetch,
sell for,
cost,
bring in,
yield,
afford.
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Roget 924:
be due
etc.
adj..
to,
be the due
etc.
n..
of;
have right to,
have title to,
have claim to;
be entitled to;
have a claim upon;
belong to
etc.
(property)
780.
deserve,
merit,
be worthy of,
richly deserve.
demand,
claim;
call upon for,
come upon for,
appeal to for;
revendicate†,
reclaim;
exact;
insist on,
insist upon;
challenge;
take one's stand,
make a point of,
require,
lay claim to,
assert,
assume,
arrogate,
make good;
substantiate;
vindicate a claim,
vindicate a right;
fit for,
qualify for;
make out a case.
give a right,
confer a right;
entitle;
authorize
etc.
760;
sanctify,
legalize,
ordain,
prescribe,
allot.
give every one his due
etc.
922;
pay one's dues;
have one's due,
have one's rights.
use a right,
assert,
enforce,
put in force,
lay under contribution.
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Roget 926:
be the duty of;
be incumbent
etc.
adj..
on,
be responsible
etc.
adj.;
behoove,
become,
befit,
beseem;
belong to,
pertain to;
fall to one's lot;
devolve on;
lie upon,
lie on one's head,
lie at one's door;
rest with,
rest on the shoulders of.
take upon oneself
etc.
(promise)
768;
be bound to,
become bound to,
be sponsor for,
become sponsor for;
incur a responsibility
etc.
n.;
be under an obligation,
stand under an obligation,
lie under an obligation;
have to answer for,
owe to it oneself.
impose a duty,
etc.
n.;
enjoin,
require,
exact;
bind,
bind over;
saddle with,
prescribe,
assign,
call upon,
look to,
oblige.
enter upon a duty,
perform a duty,
observe a duty,
fulfill a duty,
discharge a duty,
adhere to a duty,
acquit oneself of a duty,
satisfy a duty,
enter upon an obligation,
perform an obligation,
observe an obligation,
fulfill an obligation,
discharge an obligation,
adhere to an obligation,
acquit oneself of an obligation,
satisfy an obligation;
act one's part,
redeem one's pledge,
do justice to,
be at one's post;
do duty;
do one's duty
etc.
(be virtuous)
944.
be on one's good behavior,
mind one's P's and Q's.
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2 require
Consider obligatory; request and expect:
— We require our secretary to be on time.
synonyms: ask, expect.
Dutch: verwachten
3 require
Make someone do something.
synonym: command.
Dutch: bevelen, commanderen, dicteren, gebieden, gelasten, ordonneren, prescriberen, verordonneren, voorschrijven
4 require
Moby thesaurus: affect, appoint, ask, ask for, assess, assume, authorize, be hurting for, be indicated, bind, blackmail, bring, brook no denial, call, call for, challenge, charge, charge for, claim, clamor for, coerce, command, commit, comprise, contain, crave, cry for, cry out for, demand, desire, dictate, entail, exact, extort, force, have occasion for, implicate, imply, impose, indent, insist, instruct, involve, issue an ultimatum, lack, lay down, lead to, leave no option, levy, make, make a demand, make dutiable, make imperative, make incumbent, make obligatory, miss, necessitate, need, obligate, oblige, order, order up, place an order, pledge, postulate, prerequire, prescribe, presume, presuppose, pro rata, prorate, put in requisition, requisition, run short of, saddle with, screw, set, solicit, stick for, subsume, take, take doing, take in, take no denial, tax, tie, tithe, want, want doing, warn ... show more.
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