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Answer for the clue "Must I request ripe bananas? ", 12 letters:
prerequisite

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Word definitions for prerequisite in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE essential ▪ That would be an essential prerequisite for any United Nations force being asked to take over a policing operation. ▪ They consider that an exchange of information on this problem is an essential prerequisite ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prerequisite \Pre*req"ui*site\, a. Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. required as a prior condition or course of study n. something that is required in advance; "Latin was a prerequisite for admission" [syn: requirement ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. required as a prior condition of something else; necessary or indispensable. n. 1 Something that must be gained in order to gain something else 2 In education, a course or topic that must be completed before another course or topic can be started. May ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s (n.) "something required beforehand," 1650s (adj.), "required beforehand," both from pre- + requisite .

Usage examples of prerequisite.

Again, since concentration is the prerequisite for producing hypnotism, one who has not the power of concentration himself, and concentration which he can perfectly control, is not likely to be able to secure it in others.

Whether we choose mediumship, palmistry, astrology, meditation, imagery, visualization or any number of other possibilities, the only prerequisites necessary seem to be that we keep an open mind and make the effort to try something.

Nevertheless, the achievement of meditative stabilization is taught as a crucial prerequisite to gaining conceptually unstructured and unmediated insight into the fundamental nature of reality.

As historians institutionalized themselves into an academic profession, they came to believe conscientious research in the archives could confer dispassion: the prerequisite for winkling out the mysterious truths of cause and effect.

Solving the lookup tableitself arbitraryis prerequisite for my locating the particle of purpose, the smallest programmed machine in that regress of programmable machines making up living tissue.

De Quincey, whose acute and in many respects most valuable monograph on the poet touches its point of least trustworthiness in matters of this kind, declares roundly, and on the alleged authority of Coleridge himself, that the very primary and essential prerequisite of happiness was wanting to the union.

Apparently there were no overt prerequisites that would have determined who was, or who was not, qualified to learn how to become a man of knowledge.

Hence, there was never a conflict between the absence of overt prerequisites and the existence of undisclosed, covert prerequisites.

Does this not assume certain prerequisites regarding the projected plans of movement as directed by the leaders of the armies?

What are the political and military prerequisites to apply Rapid Dominance?

The resulting food surpluses, and (in some areas) the animal-based means of transporting those surpluses, were a prerequisite for the development of settled, politically centralized, socially stratified, economically complex, technologically innovative societies.

All these techniques, though developed for the exploitation of wild cereals, were prerequisites to the planting of cereals as crops.

But there were other chiliasts, and there were far more of these, who held that the physical destruction of the world was the indispensable prerequisite for the Advent, as had been unerringly foretold in various otherwise mutually contradictory ancient prophetic works.

As far as biological prerequisites for apple domestication were concerned, North American Indian farmers were like Eurasian farmers, and North American wild apples were like Eurasian wild apples.

She seemed so simple and easy-going that it was hard to believe that she had the prerequisite background in pediatrics, physiology, and clinical chemistry.