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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