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English Dictionary: requirement by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
requirement
n
  1. required activity; "the requirements of his work affected his health"; "there were many demands on his time"
    Synonym(s): requirement, demand
  2. anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"
    Synonym(s): necessity, essential, requirement, requisite, necessary
    Antonym(s): inessential, nonessential
  3. something that is required in advance; "Latin was a prerequisite for admission"
    Synonym(s): prerequisite, requirement
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Requirement \Re*quire"ment\ (-ment), n.
      1. The act of requiring; demand; requisition.
  
      2. That which is required; an imperative or authoritative
            command; an essential condition; something needed or
            necessary; a need.
  
                     One of those who believe that they can fill up every
                     requirement contained in the rule of righteousness.
                                                                              --J. M. Mason.
  
                     God gave her the child, and gave her too an
                     instinctive knowledge of its nature and
                     requirements.                                    --Hawthorne.
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