require

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French requerre (French: requérir), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin *requærere, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin requīrō (“I require, seek, ask for”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈkwaɪə/
• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈkwaɪɹ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: re‧quire

Verb

1. (obsolete) To ask (someone) for something; to request. [14^th-17^thc.]
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     I requyre yow lete vs be sworne to gyders that neuer none of vs shalle after this day haue adoo with other, and there with alle syre Tristram and sire Lamorak sware that neuer none of hem shold fyghte ageynst other nor for wele, nor for woo.

   • 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Mark V:

     I requyre the in the name of god, that thou torment me nott.

2. To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively. [from 14^thc.]
   • 1998, Joan Wolf, The Gamble, Warner Books:

     "I am Miss Newbury," I announced, "and I require to be shown to my room immediately, if you please."

   • 2009, Vikram Dodd, The Guardian, 29 December:

     ‘Regrettably, I have concluded, after considering the matter over Christmas […], that I can no longer maintain the high standard of service I require of myself, meet the demands of office and cope with the pressures of public life, without my health deteriorating further.’

3. Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary. [from 15^thc.]
   • 1972, "Aid for Aching Heads", Time, 5 June:

     Chronic pain is occasionally a sign of a very serious problem, like brain tumors, and can require surgery.

   • 2009, Julian Borger, The Guardian, 7 February:

     A weapon small enough to put on a missile would require uranium enriched to more than 90% U-235.

4. To demand of (someone) to do something. [from 18^thc.]
   • 1970, "Compulsory Midi", Time, 29 June:

     After Aug 3 all salesgirls will be required to wear only one style of skirt while on duty: the midi.

   • 2007, Allegra Stratton, "Smith to ban non-EU unskilled immigrants from working in UK", The Guardian, 5 December:

     The government would like to require non-British fiances who wish to marry a British citizen to sit an English test.

Synonyms

• call for

Related terms

• requirement
• requisite
• request

Translations

ask — see ask

to demand, call for authoritatively

• Armenian: պահանջել (hy) (pahanǰel)
• Belarusian: патрабава́ць impf (patrabavácʹ), запатрабава́ць pf (zapatrabavácʹ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 要求 (zh) (yāoqiú)

• Czech: žádat (cs), požadovat (cs), vyžadovat (cs)
• Finnish: vaatia (fi)
• French: exiger (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: erfordern (de)
• Japanese: 要求する (ja) (ようきゅうする, yōkyū suru)
• Korean: 요구하다 (ko) (yoguhada)
• Portuguese: exigir (pt), requerer (pt)
• Russian: тре́бовать (ru) impf (trébovatʹ), потре́бовать (ru) pf (potrébovatʹ)
• Ukrainian: вимага́ти impf (vymaháty)
• Vietnamese: yêu cầu (vi)

to need

• Armenian: անհրաժեշտ լինել (anhražešt linel), կարիք ունենալ (karikʻ unenal)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 需要 (zh) (xūyào)

• Czech: žádat (cs), vyžadovat (cs)
• Finnish: vaatia (fi)
• French: demander (fr), avoir besoin (fr) de, requérir (fr), nécessiter (fr)
• Galician: precisar (gl)
• German: brauchen (de), benötigen (de)
• Greek: χρειάζομαι (el) (chreiázomai)
• Ido: necesigar (io)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Interlingua: requirer
• Italian: richiedere (it), necessitare (it)
• Japanese: 必要とする (ja) (ひつようとする, hitsuyō to suru), 要する (ようする, yōsuru)
• Lao: ຕ້ອງການ (tǭng kān)
• Portuguese: precisar de, necessitar (pt), requerer (pt)
• Russian: нужда́ться (ru) (nuždátʹsja) (в (v) + prepositional case)
• Spanish: requerir (es), necesitar (es)
• Turkish: gerektirmek (tr), gereksinmek (tr)
• Ukrainian: потребува́ти impf (potrebuváty)

to demand of (someone)

• Armenian: պահանջել (hy) (pahanǰel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 要求 (zh) (yāoqiú)

• Finnish: vaatia (fi), edellyttää (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• French: exiger (fr) de, prier (fr)
• Japanese: 要求する (ja) (ようきゅうする, yōkyū suru)
• Russian: тре́бовать (ru) impf (trébovatʹ), потре́бовать (ru) pf (potrébovatʹ)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} vereisen (nl)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Further reading

• “require”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “require”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “require”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• querier

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Interlingua

Verb

require

1. present of requirer
2. imperative of requirer

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) requīre

1. second-person singular present active imperative of requīrō