Requirement: alternatives and connections

Anything desired; that of which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledge.

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To be obliged; to be necessitated; -- expressing either physical or moral necessity; as, a man must eat for nourishment; we must submit to the laws.

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A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

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A previous or antecedent condition; a preliminary condition.

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The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of p…

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That which is due; payment.

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The act of obligating.

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The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable, as for a trust, debt, or obligation.

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Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought.

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Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.

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Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.

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Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty.

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Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty.

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Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to w…

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Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to w…

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To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.

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To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.

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To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…

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Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.

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Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.

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The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.

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Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success.

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That which is required, or is necessary; something indispensable.

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