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Definition: Requisite |
RequisiteAdjective1. Necessary for relief or supply; "provided them with all things needful". Noun1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "requisite" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Tips from 1870 | Usage: Requirement, Requisition, Requisite. While these words have something in common, each has a meaning peculiar to itself. Requirement means that which is required as an essential condition, or as something necessary; requisition, that which is required as of right, a demand or application made as by authority; requisite, that which is required by the nature of things, or by circumstances, that which cannot be dispensed with. "She understood the nature of the child and of its requirements." "The officer made a requisition for more troops." "This is as much a requisite as food and clothing." Source: Slips of Speech. |
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Synonyms: RequisiteSynonyms: needed (adj), needful (adj), required (adj), essential (n), necessary (n), necessity (n), requirement (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: inessential (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Requirement | Adjective: required; Verb: requisite, needful, necessary, imperative, essential, indispensable, prerequisite; called for; in demand, in request. |
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Crosswords: Requisite |
| English words defined with "requisite": adequate to ♦ capable, Conditions of sale ♦ Dimension stone ♦ equal to ♦ Liege poustie ♦ Practicable breach ♦ Snarling iron ♦ Tetartohedral, To clear a ship at the customhouse, To know how ♦ uncertified, Underdo, up to. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "requisite": analytical photography, antihelminthic measures ♦ dehelminthisation ♦ electrocast process ♦ fish hook ♦ Health Resources ♦ incident management co-ordination ♦ MANAGER, FLIGHT KITCHEN ♦ rolling and quartering ♦ SUFFRAGETTE. (references) |
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| Author | Quotation |
Georg Wilhelm Hegel | Order is the first requisite of liberty. |
René Descartes | To be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. |
Samuel Johnson | Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. |
Stanislaw J. Lec | The first requisite for immortality is death. |
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John Locke | 1690 | This power to act according to discretion, for the public good, without the prescription of the law, and sometimes even against it, is that which is called prerogative: for since in some governments the lawmaking power is not always in being, and is usually too numerous, and so too slow, for the dispatch requisite to execution; and because also it is impossible to foresee, and so by laws to provide for, all accidents and necessities that may concern the public, or to make such laws as will do no harm, if they are executed with an inflexible rigour, on all occasions, and upon all persons that may come in their way; therefore there is a latitude left to the executive power, to do many things of choice which the laws do not prescribe. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 1: The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature. (reference) |
Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-2018 | The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | The average price of wage-labour is the minimum wage, i.e., that quantum of the means of subsistence, which is absolutely requisite in bare existence as a labourer. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | But you have not an idea of what is requisite in situations directly opposite to your own. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The requisite proportions between the tracked marten and the tracking hound were observed |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Furthermore, no published data or study presented to the conference had the requisite power, in terms of numbers of patients or duration of followup, to compare fracture rates in patients with asymptomatic primary HPT to normals. (references) | |
Data indicate that meticulous attention to food and beverage preparation, as mentioned above, can decrease the likelihood of developing TD. Most travelers, however, encounter great difficulty in observing the requisite dietary restrictions. (references) | ||
Consequently, if a child is hard of hearing or deaf at birth or experiences hearing loss in infancy or early childhood, it is likely that child will not receive adequate auditory, linguistic, and social stimulation requisite to speech and language learning, social and emotional development, and that family functioning will suffer. (references) | ||
Business | The lack of resources has hampered Vietnam in providing enough workers with the requisite education and skills for either domestic or foreign-invested industry. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Malaysia | Opposition politicians note that ruling coalition parties frequently assemble without the requisite permits. (references) |
Economic History | Kenya | The country does not have an established manufacturing base as it lacks know-how and requisite material. (references) |
Kenya | Due to the lack of requisite know-how and material, no significant expansion is expected in local production in the near future. (references) | |
Human Rights | El Salvador | For example, some persons under investigation never took courses listed on their transcripts, while others simply failed to complete the requisite number of semesters after transferring schools. (references) |
Minorities | Estonia | The language office liberally grants extensions to persons who can explain their failure to meet the requisite competence level. (references) |
Political Economy | ITALY | This license is granted to Italian importers when they provide the requisite forms. (references) |
Political Rights | Angola | The Lusaka Protocol stated that it would take place following a U.N. determination that requisite conditions exist. (references) |
Trade | Russia | Russian banks issue letters of credit only when the Russian buyer can deposit the requisite funds ahead of time. (references) |
Bahrain | Presentation of a certificate from manufacturers certifying that foods do not contain cyclamates is an important requisite. (references) | |
Travel | Korea | All over Korea, you'll find first-class telecommunications, the requisite five-star hotels, Western restaurants, modern transport systems (including very efficient subway networks in Seoul and Busan), innovative architecture, and so forth. (references) |
Worker Rights | Yemen | The requisite legislation for regulating occupational health is contained in the Labor Law, but enforcement is weak to nonexistent. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Measures have been taken pursuant to that resolution for procuring some of the most necessary artists, together with the requisite apparatus. |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | To accomplish this important object, a prudent foresight requires that systematic measures be adopted for procuring at all times the requisite timber and other supplies. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Two others are yet to be laid up so soon as they shall have received the repairs requisite to put them also into sound condition. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | The correspondences which will be laid before you contain the requisite information on the subject. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Great fortifications will therefore be requisite only in future along the coast and at some points in the interior connected with it. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part, and I shall perform it so far as practicable unless my rightful masters, the American people, shall withhold the requisite means or in some authoritative manner direct the contrary. |
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| "Requisite" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 90.74% of the time. "Requisite" is used about 216 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 90.74% | 196 | 21,868 |
| Noun (singular) | 9.26% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Total | 100.00% | 216 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "requisite": requisite time. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "requisite": pre-requisite. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
requisite | 18 |
requisite pro | 12 |
requisite technology | 5 |
rational requisite pro | 3 |
organization requisite | 3 |
exam graduate requisite | 3 |
care requisite self universal | 2 |
care childbearing family requisite self | 2 |
contract employment law requisite | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "requisite"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | vereiste. (various references) | |
Albanian | i kërkuar (popular, prerequisite), gjë e nevojshme (necessary, needful). (various references) | |
Arabic | ضروري (indispensable, must, necessary, needful, substantial), الشيء الضروري, شىء أساسي (basic, root). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | нужен (necessary, needful, wanted), нещо нужно, нещо необходимо (necessity, needful, thing), потребност (necessity, need, want), потребен (necessary, needful, required), изискван. (various references) | |
Chinese | 必需". (various references) | |
Czech | potřebný (desirable, necessary, needful, needy, perquisite, required, wanting), potřeba (need, occasion, requirement, urge, want), odpovídající (appropriate, corresponding), nutný (essential, imperative, indispensable, inescapable, necessary, needful, perquisite, urgent), žádaný. (various references) | |
Danish | overtagelsesfrist (requisite furniture for inspection and acceptance), Kommissionen retter henstilling om metoderne for det noedvendige samarbejde fra de andre Medlemsstaters side (the Commission shall recommend the methods for the requisite cooperation between Member States), den rette kombination af modulenheder goer det muligt at daekke alle logiske grundfunktioner og at ophyggeciffertekniske kredsloeb til regulering (appropriate assembly of the individual elements can provide all the requisite logical circuits and numbering circuits for a control system). (various references) | |
Dutch | vereiste, benodigdheid, behoefte (need, want). (various references) | |
Esperanto | bezonaĵo. (various references) | |
Finnish | tarpeellinen (due, indispensable, necessary, needful, required). (various references) | |
French | requise (required), requis (required), voulu (required), nécessaire, chose nécessaire. (various references) | |
German | Requisit (equipment, prop), Erfordernis (exigency, prerequisite, requirement). (various references) | |
Greek | χρειώδησ (needful), αναγκαίοσ (necessary, needful), απαιτούμενοσ, απαιτούμενο. (various references) | |
Hebrew | "רוש (address, homily, lecture, needful, required, sermon, speech, thesis), חוץ (essential, immediate, imperative, necessary, needed, needful, required, urgent). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szükséges (consequential, it is necessary, necessary, needful, to need, to require), követelmény (assumption, exigency, outcome, postulate, requirement), vele járó (accompanying, attendant, inherent), szükséglet (necessity, need, needs, prime necessity, want), kellék (appurtenance, associated, attachment, fixture, habiliment, ingredient, makings, materials, necessity, paraphernalia, prerequisite, requirement), kívánalom (postulate, requirement, requisition, standard), előfeltétel (precondition, prerequisite, requirement). (various references) | |
Indonesian | syarat (condition, provise, requirement), keperluan (necessity, need, utility), diharuskan. (various references) | |
Italian | richiesto (required, sought after, wanted), requisito (qualification, requirement), necessario (essential, indispensable, necessary, needful, prerequisite). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 必需" (essential, necessary article, necessities). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひつじゅひ" (essential, necessary article, necessities). (various references) | |
Manx | femoil (beggarly, destitute, essential, necessary, needy), feme (exigence, necessity, need, requirement, want). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | equisiteray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | requisito (requirement, requisition), requerido (applied, engineering, required), preciso (accurate, clean-cut, clock-work, correct, definite, determinate, even, exact, i need, must, necessary, needful, precise, precision, proper, required, specific, well-defined), necessidade (call, lack, must, necessary, necessity, need, poverty, requirement, want, washroom), necessário (essential, must, necessary, needed, needful, required, substantial), indispensável (necessary, needful), condição indispensável, coisa necessária (necessary, washroom). (various references) | |
Romanian | necesar (essential, good, imperative, necessary, needed, needful, prerequisite, required), lucru necesar, condiţie (circumstances, condition, if, plight, rank, situation, sort, state, station, status, stipulation, terms, way), cerut (just, prerequisite), cerinţã (claim, demand, requirement, want). (various references) | |
Russian | реквизит (props, stage props), требуемый (adequate), необходимый (indispensable, necessary, needful, required). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | potreban (necessary, need: in need, needful, prerequisite, required), potreba (call, exigency, need, want), neophodan (indispensable, necessary, required). (various references) | |
Spanish | requisito (formality, need, qualification, requirement), preciso (accurate, correct, definite, exact, necessary, pinpoint, precise, proper, right), indispensable (essential, imperative, indispensable, necessary), imprescindible (essential, indispensable, necessary, vital). (various references) | |
Swedish | förnödenheter (necessities), erforderlig (necessary). (various references) | |
Thai | สิ่งจำเป็น (biggie, necessity, order of the day, requirement), จำเป็น (essential, necessary, necessitous, need). (various references) | |
Turkish | zorunlu (bound, bound to, coercible, compulsory, derigueur, enforced, essential, forced, forcedly, imperative, imperious, incumbent, indispensable, irremissible, mandatory, necessary, obligatory, obliged, unavoidable, urgent), zaruri (indispensable, material), malzeme (apparatus, findings, furnishing, furniture, ingredient, instruments, kit, makings, material, materiel, necessaries, outfit, provisions, stock, topping, turnout, utensil), lazım (necessary, needed, needful, required, wanted), gerekli şey, gerekli (essential, imperative, indispensable, material, necessary, needful, obligatory, ought, wanted), gereç (equipment, material, materiel, staff). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | необхідне (necessary, needful), необхідний (indispensable, must, necessary, needed, needful, required, valuable, vital), потрібне (needful), потрібний (necessary, needed, needful, wanted). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cần thiết (material, must, necessary, needful, perforce), điều kiện tất yếu, điều kiện cần thiết vật cần thiết, đ" dùng cần thiết. (various references) | |
Welsh | gofynnol (necessary). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "requisite": requisiteness, requisitenesses, requisites. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "requisite": corequisite, prerequisite. (additional references) | |
Words containing "requisite": corequisites, prerequisites. (additional references) | |
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"Requisite" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: equisite, Erquiza, pequisite, prequisite, reguisite, requesite, requestee, requisit, requisita, requisits, requiste, requistie. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "requisite" (pronounced re"kwuzut) |
| 8 | r e" k w u z u t | prerequisite. |
| 6 | -k w u z u t | exquisite, perquisite. |
| 4 | -u z u t | opposite. |
| 3 | -z u t | closet, composite, deposit, exit, posit, revisit, transit, visit. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-i-q-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: equities, quieters, requites. | |
-2 letters: equites, esquire, queries, querist, quester, quieter, request, requite. | |
-3 letters: queers, quiets, quires, quirts, resite, reties, retuse, risque, squire, squirt, suiter. | |
-4 letters: ester, etuis, queer, quest, quiet, quire, quirt, quite, quits, reest, reset, retie, reuse, rites, sieur, siree, steer, stere, suite, terse, tiers, tires, trees, tries, trues, uteri. | |
-5 letters: erst, etui, ires. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-i-q-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: perquisite, requisites. | |
+2 letters: corequisite, perquisites. | |
+3 letters: corequisites, equilibrates, prerequisite, quaternities. | |
+4 letters: prerequisites, questionaries, questionnaire, requisiteness, requisitioned, ventriloquies. | |
+5 letters: disequilibrate, questionnaires, relinquishment, superqualities, ventriloquizes. | |
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