requirement
Roget category 630
5. Words relating to the voluntary powers› 5.2. Prospective volition
›› 5.2.1. Conceptional volition
#630.
Requirement
noun
requirement,
need,
wants,
necessities —
necessaries,
necessaries of life —
stress,
exigency,
pinch,
sine qua non,
matter of necessity —
case of need,
case of life or death.
needfulness,
essentiality,
necessity,
indispensability,
urgency.
requisition
etc.
(request)
765,
(exaction)
741 —
run upon —
demand,
call for.
charge,
claim,
command,
injunction,
mandate,
order,
precept.
desideratum
etc.
(desire)
865 —
want
etc.
(deficiency)
640.
verb
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.
adjective
adjective
required
etc.
v. —
requisite,
needful,
necessary,
imperative,
essential,
indispensable,
prerequisite —
called for —
in demand,
in request.
urgent,
exigent,
pressing,
instant,
crying,
absorbing.
in want of —
destitute of
etc.
640.
adverb
ex necessitate rei [Lat.]
etc.
(necessarily)
601 —
of necessity.
phrase
there is no time to lose —
it cannot be spared,
it cannot be dispensed with —
mendacem memorem esse oportet [Lat.]
[Quintilian];
necessitas non habet legem [Lat.] —
nec tecum possum trivere nec sine te [Lat.]
[Martial].
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