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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Requirement \Re*quire"ment\ (-ment), noun
1. The act of requiring; demand; requisition.
2. That which is required; an imperative or authoritative command; an essential condition; something needed or necessary; a need.
One of those who believe that they can fill up every requirement contained in the rule of righteousness. --J. M. Mason.
God gave her the child, and gave her too an instinctive knowledge of its nature and requirements. --Hawthorne.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
requirement
noun
1: required activity; "the requirements of his work affected his health"; "there were many demands on his time" [syn: {demand}]
2: 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}, {requisite}, {necessary}] [ant: {inessential}]
3: something that is required in advance; "Latin was a prerequisite for admission" [syn: {prerequisite}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "requirement": bare necessities, blackmail, call, call for, claim, condition, contribution, demand, demand for, desideration, desideratum, draft, drain, duty, essential, essentials, exaction, extortion, extortionate demand, heavy demand, imposition, impost, indent, indispensable, insistent demand, levy, must, must item, necessaries, necessities, necessity, need, need for, nonnegotiable demand, notice, occasion, order, precondition, prerequirement, prerequisite, provision, proviso, qualification, requisite, requisition, rush, rush order, sine qua non, stipulation, tax, taxing, the necessary, the needful, tribute, ultimatum, want, warning
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