requirement

requirement
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
n. want, necessity;the necessary or requisite; requisition, demand; needfulness, essentiality, indispensability; urgency, exigency, sine qua non, matter of life and death. See compulsion, command.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [A prerequisite]
Syn. condition, preliminary condition, essential, imperative, element, requisite, provision, indispensable provision, terms, necessity, stipulation, fundamental, first principle, precondition, reservation, specification, proviso, qualification, vital part, sine qua non (Latin), desideratum, must*; see also basis 1 .
2. [A need]
Syn. necessity, necessary, lack, want, demand, call, claim, obsession, preoccupation, prepossession, engrossment, stress, extremity, exigency, pinch, obligation, pressing concern, urgency, compulsion, exaction, requisition.
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
necessity, must, essential, need, imperative, requisite, prerequisite, condition, term, provision, dictate.
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun Something indispensable: condition, essential, must, necessity, need, precondition, prerequisite, requisite, sine qua non. See NECESSARY.

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