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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

requisite

adjective: necessary for relief or supply; "provided them with all things needful" [syn: {needed}, {needful}, {required}]

noun: 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" [syn: {necessity}, {essential}, {requirement}, {necessary}] [ant: {inessential}]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Requisite \Req"ui*site\ (r?k"w?-z?t), noun That which is required, or is necessary; something indispensable.

God, on his part, has declared the requisites on ours; what we must do to obtain blessings, is the great business of us all to know. --Wake.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Requisite \Req"ui*site\, adjective [L. requisitus, p. p. requirere; pref. re- re- + quaerere to ask. See {Require}.] Required by the nature of things, or by circumstances; so needful that it can not be dispensed with; necessary; indispensable.

All truth requisite for men to know. --Milton.

Syn: Necessary; needful; indispensable; essential. -- {Req"ui*site*ly}, adverb -- {Req"ui*site*ness}, noun

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

72 Moby Thesaurus words for "requisite": appropriate, bare necessities, boundary condition, call for, called for, catch, clause, condign, condition, demand, demand for, deserved, desideration, desideratum, donnee, due, escalator clause, escape clause, escape hatch, essential, essentials, fine print, given, grounds, indicated, indispensable, irreducible, irreductible, irreplaceable, joker, kicker, limiting condition, merited, must, must item, necessaries, necessary, necessities, necessity, need, need for, needed, needful, obligation, occasion, parameter, prerequirement, prerequisite, provision, provisions, proviso, required, requirement, requisition, right, rightful, saving clause, sine qua non, small print, specification, stipulation, string, suitable, terms, the necessary, the needful, ultimatum, unforgoable, vital, want, wanted, whereas

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