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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Prerequisite \Pre*req"ui*site\, adjective Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Prerequisite \Pre*req"ui*site\, noun Something previously required, or necessary to an end or effect proposed.
The necessary prerequisites of freedom. -- Goldsmith.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
prerequisite
adjective: required as a prior condition or course of study
noun: something that is required in advance; "Latin was a prerequisite for admission" [syn: {requirement}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
108 Moby Thesaurus words for "prerequisite": arrangement, bare necessities, basic training, boundary condition, briefing, call for, called for, catch, clause, clearing the decks, condition, demand, demand for, demanded, desideration, desideratum, donnee, equipment, escalator clause, escape clause, escape hatch, essential, essentials, familiarization, fine print, fixing, foundation, given, grounds, groundwork, imperative, indicated, indispensable, irreducible, irreductible, irreplaceable, joker, kicker, limiting condition, makeready, making ready, manufacture, mobilization, must, must item, necessaries, necessary, necessities, necessitous, necessity, need, need for, needed, needful, obligation, obligatory, occasion, parameter, planning, prearrangement, precondition, preliminaries, preliminary, preliminary act, preliminary step, prep, preparation, preparative, preparatory, preparatory study, preparing, prepping, prerequirement, pretreatment, processing, propaedeutic, provident, provision, provisional, provisions, proviso, qualification, readying, required, requirement, requisite, requisition, saving clause, sine qua non, small print, spadework, specification, stipulation, string, terms, the necessary, the needful, training, treatment, trial, tryout, ultimatum, unforgoable, vital, want, wanted, warm-up, whereas
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