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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
require
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a constitution requires sth
▪ The U.S. Constitution requires that a census be done every ten years.
it takes/requires brains to do sth
▪ It takes brains to think of a plan like that.
legislation requires sth
▪ Legislation requires newspapers to be printed on recycled paper.
need/require a permit
▪ EU citizens no longer need a permit to work in the UK.
need/require an explanation
▪ We think the minister’s decision requires an explanation.
need/require care
▪ She had an aging mother who required constant care.
need/require consideration
▪ Money is usually the first issue that needs consideration.
need/require equipment
▪ For scuba diving, you’ll need specialized equipment.
need/require expertise
▪ It’s a specialist job that requires expertise.
need/require preparation
▪ Important competitions need proper preparation.
need/require supervision
▪ I do not need constant supervision.
need/require training
▪ The team will need extra software training.
need/require treatment
▪ All three were beaten so badly that they needed hospital treatment.
require consultationformal (= need consultation)
▪ Any decision on military action would require consultation.
require cooperationformal:
▪ Management of these problems requires cooperation.
require/need approval
▪ A multi-million pound project will require approval by the full board of directors.
require/take skill (=to need skill)
▪ It’s a difficult task, which requires skill and experience.
sth requires determination
▪ Success requires hard work and determination.
sth requires sb’s consent
▪ Your consent is required before we can apply for a medical report.
sth requires/demands (a) commitment
▪ Nursing as a profession demands genuine commitment.
sth requires/demands concentrationformal
▪ Writing an exam requires great concentration.
sth requires/involves effortformal (= it takes effort)
▪ Trying to get my mother to change her mind requires considerable effort.
sth takes/requires energy
▪ Climbing with a full backpack takes a lot of energy.
the required/necessary minimum (=the least amount that you must have)
▪ He received 35 votes, two more than the required minimum.
the rule requires (that) ...formal (= it says that people must do something)
▪ School rules required all girls to tie back their hair.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ Ways in which the authority can discharge its responsibilities for standard setting for all aspects of care will also require attention.
▪ It also requires a terminal storage facility.
▪ It also requires that teachers in schools should know the purposes to which their assessments and predictions will be put.
▪ In addition to having the license plates properly mounted, displaying these decals on the windows is also required by law.
▪ We would also require a refrigerated van for distribution purposes.
▪ It appears that thyroid hormone is also required for full suppression of antidiuretic hormone release.
▪ Deep changes in attitudes are also required.
▪ It also requires trade-offs and compromises, just as any collective action does.
■ NOUN
act
▪ Discs viable, a second half way decent act was required.
▪ In 1823 an Act was passed requiring the appointment of prison Matrons to supervise women prisoners.
▪ The Companies Act 1985, requires a general policy of disclosure of insiders' interests.
▪ S.2 of that Act also requires a company to state its objects.
▪ The Data Protection Act requires us to have your permission to do this.
▪ The Financial Services Act requires insurance advisers either to be tied to a single insurance company, or to be entirely independent.
▪ The Convertible Act requires the Central Bank to maintain 100 % backing for the monetary base in gold and currency.
action
▪ Achieving environmentally-sustainable mobility must include an expanded role for public transport, and requires many kinds of action.
▪ Taking Corrective Action Corrective action should be taken if performance falls short of standards and the analysis indicates that action is required.
▪ The orders did not require such action to be taken.
▪ Does the bedrock constitutional principle of equal protection for all require affirmative action, merely allow it, or even prohibit it?
▪ Again, advice and assistance may be different with the latter requiring some positive action on behalf of the client.
▪ It does not require any action by the state Legislature.
amount
▪ This arrangement requires a certain amount of restraint and co-operation on the part of the dominant males, but it clearly has compensatory advantages.
▪ Getting to even the most accessible monasteries requires a fair amount of walking and stair-climbing.
▪ The interpretation of the data is simple and requires a minimum amount of calculation.
▪ To make more out of it may require a tremendous amount of creative work within the individual disciplines.
▪ Cocaine production requires large amounts of water, hence factories are nearly always built by streams.
▪ The whole system requires enormous amounts of energy.
▪ In addition, an expanding Kingston required increasing amounts of fruit and market garden produce which are currently the main products.
▪ National and Statewide campaigns also require massive amounts of energy and stamina, as well as superior fund raising skills.
approval
▪ However, a Class 1 transaction is not sufficiently important to require shareholder approval.
▪ The proposal, which requires shareholder approval, will create a new company with shares that trade separately.
▪ In some cases approval of the Secretary of State is required.
▪ A merger would require approval of both companies' shareholders and of the Federal Trade Commission.
▪ The politically explosive domestic bases plan requires approval by an independent commission, President Bill Clinton and Congress.
▪ The results were mixed in other parts of Marin on two capital improvement taxes that required approval by two-thirds of the voters.
▪ The necessary constitutional changes would require approval by a three-quarters majority in the 70-seat Assembly.
▪ Development plans by government agencies which were opposed by the Park would require parliamentary approval.
attention
▪ Present happenings require constant attention and reassessment.
▪ It is a demand that begins to override the others, and to require immediate attention.
▪ This makes it much easier both to remove the plants when they require attention and to clean out the pool when necessary.
▪ Those entries which were changed by machine processes have their status preset to the value requires attention.
▪ This question of a more developed central core among the small towns is an important one which requires closer attention.
authority
▪ Those inevitably require hierarchical authority to implement and tend to be mechanistic.
▪ The first is its lack of certainty as to what was required of the health authority.
▪ Central government, therefore, requires information that local authority expenditure has been legitimate and that minimum service provisions have been met.
▪ In order to direct people, those in senior positions require authority to legitimise the instructions and orders they give.
▪ We will require local authorities to define minimum standards of accessibility in their areas and draw up transport plans which meet them.
▪ However, this requires clearer remits for authorities, something we discuss in the next section.
▪ The warrants required the college authorities to provide the address of a student and give the police access to her personal computer.
change
▪ Financing all this requires change and new ways of working.
▪ To live there would require practice and many changes, but they were willing to learn.
▪ The introduction of information technology on this basis will clearly require a number of changes in how organisations operate.
▪ What it required was a change in gaze.
▪ A city advisory board concluded that it would require 35 pages of changes in the regulatory code, just for a start.
▪ Importantly, not all initiatives require behavior change for success, even if the organization as a whole does.
▪ To win a significant amount of new business would require a big cultural change at the company.
▪ But a real revitalization of democracy will require deeper change.
effort
▪ Which was invigorating, but required no actual effort on our part.
▪ Also, construction sites, mines, farms and landfills will be required to boost their efforts to reduce dust.
▪ For this is not a journey of peace and tranquillity but a struggle requiring constant effort and application.
▪ Curiously, he felt the beginnings of sorrow, which perplexed him, and it required effort to direct his thoughts elsewhere.
▪ The difference between a flotation tank and other relaxation techniques is that other methods require effort on the part of the patient.
▪ But that will require a major effort.
▪ Sometimes this requires quite an effort from both horse and rider.
▪ In fact, creating a parenting network requires planning and emotional effort.
information
▪ President Clinton signed a law last year that requires states to make information on sexually violent criminals available to the public.
▪ The forms require information to be provided which will establish that the court has jurisdiction.
▪ After patients supply their medical records, a company medical team contacts their physicians for any required information not in the records.
▪ During this time patients will also require information about the peri- and post-operative periods.
▪ More often than not, to account for linguistic phenomena we require diverse kinds of information from different components of a grammar.
▪ Resource allocation in the near future requires accurate information not only for each school but within a school for each year.
law
▪ In one case, a law passed last year required telephone companies to design their equipment to allow for wiretaps.
▪ The Democrats in Congress screamed how outrageous it was, using the racketeering laws to require democracy.
▪ State law requires secession support by a majority of voters citywide and in the Valley before a breakaway can be completed.
▪ State law requiring a flag salute is superseded by the First Amendment of the Constitution.
▪ The Law Society will require evidence such as a marriage certificate, deed poll or statutory declaration.
▪ Does a state law that requires the daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance violate the establishment clause?
▪ The first section lists the majority of the laws we require.
▪ The purchase triggered takeover laws requiring Mediobanca to make an identical public bid.
level
▪ This requires a level of co-ordination in tongue movements and swallowing.
▪ Generally, their jobs are lower-level jobs, lower-paid jobs, or ones that require lower levels of skills.
▪ It requires a high level of stamina, a thick skin and a flexible mind.
▪ Immediate priorities should include improving facilities to deal with infectious agents that require high level microbiological safety precautions. iii.
▪ Analytical reading requires good levels of concentration, however.
▪ Production costs will decrease as the required level of stock is reduced.
▪ Education is required at two levels.
rule
▪ There are two exceptions to the rule requiring full disclosure.
▪ Forty senators could block the bill because Senate rules require 60 votes to take up a conference committee report.
▪ For recurrent decisions, a general rule is required.
▪ Currently, the rules require a life office's products to be offered at the same price through all its tied outlets.
▪ In the end a new game with new rules requiring new strategies will emerge.
▪ Broadly, the rules require that an electoral college choose the Leader.
▪ Together they are producing a new economic game with new rules requiring new strategies to win.
skill
▪ Where quantitative analysis requires mathematical and computer skills, area studies require language training and extensive field research.
▪ Dad was to bring Mama her breakfast, since that required a minimum of skill to prepare.
▪ It may require considerable skill to calculate in just what circumstances particular acts will evolve.
▪ Having the minimum capability required to learn new skills, behaviors, and relationships.
▪ Gasifiers require considerable technical skills for operation and maintenance.
▪ That, of course, requires orchestrating the skills of many specialties.
▪ Stunts like this require a lot of skill.
▪ It does not require reading skills.
treatment
▪ The authors suggest that patients with high neuroticism scores require intensive early treatment to avoid chronic symptoms.
▪ Many young people are struggling with a depressive illness that requires medical treatment.
▪ Severe lipaemia is rarely found but requires more urgent treatment.
▪ When it does occur, it may be a sign of a lung disease that requires treatment.
▪ Indeed, some insurance companies have tried to do this by requiring prior approval for treatment.
▪ One victim was stabbed; others required hospital treatment as a result of the attacks.
▪ If there is a problem requiring treatment, the machine will say so.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A lot of patience is required to look after a disabled child.
▪ As any couple will tell you, marriage requires commitment and sacrifice from both partners.
▪ Guests who require special diets should inform the catering manager in advance.
▪ Higgins' broken leg will probably require surgery.
▪ Is there anything further you require, sir?
▪ Most house plants require good light and regular watering.
▪ The job requires a college degree and a knowledge of computers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A second offense would earn a misdemeanor citation, and a third would require a court appearance.
▪ But it requires alkaline water and propagates freely from stem-cuttings.
▪ But it will only work if further orders are required and other suppliers are not readily available.
▪ Eddy requires a climb of about 2, 200 feet over the course of 5-1 / 4 miles.
▪ Several joined in to complain about the tribute required by the deputy in Riba.
▪ The governor is proposing the minimum increase for schools required by Proposition 98.
▪ The latter then sued for a writ of mandamus requiring Madison to give him his commission.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Require

Require \Re*quire"\ (r?-kw?r"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Required (-kw?rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Requiring.] [OE. requeren, requiren, OF. requerre, F. requ?rir; L. pref. re- re- + quaerere to ask; cf. L. requirere. See Query, and cf. Request, Requisite.]

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

    Shall I say to C[ae]sar What you require of him?
    --Shak.

    By nature did what was by law required.
    --Dryden.

  2. To demand or exact as indispensable; to need.

    Just gave what life required, and gave no more.
    --Goldsmith.

    The two last [biographies] require to be particularly noticed.
    --J. A. Symonds.

  3. To ask as a favor; to request.

    I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way.
    --Ezra viii. 22.

    Syn: To claim; exact; enjoin; prescribe; direct; order; demand; need.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
require

late 14c., "to ask a question, inquire," from Old French requerre "seek, procure; beg, ask, petition; demand," from Vulgar Latin *requaerere, from Latin requirere "seek to know, ask," from re-, here perhaps meaning "repeatedly" (see re-), + quaerere "ask, seek" (see query (v.)).\n

\nThe original sense of this word has been taken over by request (v.). Sense of "demand (someone) to do (something)" is from 1751, via the notion of "to ask for imperatively, or as a right" (late 14c.). Related: Required; requiring.

Wiktionary
require

vb. 1 (label en obsolete) To ask (someone) for something; to request. (14th-17thc.) 2 To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively. (from 14thc.) 3 Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary. (from 15thc.) 4 To demand of (someone) to do something. (from 18thc.)

WordNet
require
  1. v. require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulates a patient's consent" [syn: necessitate, ask, postulate, need, take, involve, call for, demand] [ant: obviate]

  2. consider obligatory; request and expect; "We require our secretary to be on time"; "Aren't we asking too much of these children?"; "I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons" [syn: ask, expect]

  3. make someone do something [syn: command, compel]

  4. have need of; "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner" [syn: want, need]

Usage examples of "require".

Hotel, and has been attended by the most happy results, yet the cases have presented so great a diversity of abnormal features, and have required so many variations in the course of treatment, to be met successfully, that we frankly acknowledge our inability to so instruct the unprofessional reader as to enable him to detect the various systemic faults common to this ever-varying disease, and adjust remedies to them, so as to make the treatment uniformly successful.

That would require leaving sufficient men aboard to subdue the prisoners, which in turn made any future action more hazardous.

NARAL Pro-Choice America even decided not to oppose a bill that would require doctors to anesthetize babies being aborted after the twentieth week of pregnancy, called the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act.

And there were problems with these votes, since the Sem-inole County Canvassing Board had allowed Republican Party volunteers to fill in missing data on absentee-ballot applications completed by registered Republicansa violation of Florida lawand many overseas absentee ballots from members of the armed forces lacked the postmarks required by law.

This created a problem because Florida law clearly requires all overseas absentee ballots to be postmarked by Election Day and received within ten days after the election.

One man had to defend voting absentee at the last minute, without having applied in advance, as the law required.

In a variety of analogous forms in different countries throughout Europe, the patrimonial and absolutist state was the political form required to rule feudal social relations and relations of production.

Achieving this end required that Einstein forge a second link in the chain uniting gravity and accelerated motion: the curvature of space and time, to which we now turn.

When the lead in the assay has been separated as sulphate and dissolved in sodic acetate, less chromate is apparently required, and in this case it will be necessary to precipitate the lead in the standard with an equivalent of sodic sulphate and redissolve in sodic acetate just as in the assay.

Gradually, the French became more and more intransigent and this climaxed in 1292 when the papal throne became vacant and the French and Italian factions in the College of Cardinals cancelled each other out to the extent that they wrangled for two years without reaching agreement: no candidate achieved the required two-thirds majority.

Solving problems is usually a short term thing, but achieving national progress requires taking a long-term, goal-oriented approach.

Because of the acidic components present in the reaction mixture of the mixed anhydride, about five mols or equivalents of the ammo compound are required per mole or equivalent of mixed anhydride for maximal conversion of the mixed anhydride to the amide.

Whether this acidity should be reported in terms of the lime or of the soda required to neutralise it will depend on which of these reagents is to be used in the actual practice.

Of course, this is predicated on your success in purchasing all the land we require, and the subsequent merger of Acme with our new corporation.

The abbe being intimately acquainted with them, I gathered from him all the information I required, and, amongst other things, I heard that the young countess had a brother, then an officer in the papal service.