REQUIRE
Definition:
- [verb] require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulates a patient's consent"
Synonyms: necessitate, ask, postulate, need, take, involve, call for, demand
- [verb] consider obligatory; request and expect; "We require our secretary to be on time"; "Aren't we asking too much of these children?"; "I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons"
Synonyms: ask, expect
- [verb] make someone do something
Synonyms: command, compel
- [verb] have need of; "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"
Synonyms: want, need
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Related Words:
- claim, take, exact
- govern
- draw
- cost
- cry out for, cry for
- imply, involve
- call
- charge, saddle, burden
- requisition
- forbid, prohibit, interdict, proscribe, veto, disallow
- cry
