require

Verb

Verb Forms: required, requiring, requires

• To need something; to demand or make necessary.
• require as useful, just, or proper
  • "success usually requires hard work"
• consider obligatory; request and expect
  • "We require our secretary to be on time"
• make someone do something
• have need of
• To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively.
• Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary.
• To demand (of someone) to do something.
• To ask (someone) for something; to request.

Examples

• A successful Scrabble strategy often requires thinking several moves ahead.
• It is required (of me) that I give evidence in court.

Synonyms

ask, call for, command, demand, expect, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, take, want, exact, provide

Antonyms

obviate

Related Words

request, requirement, requisite