What does required mean?
Definitions for required
re·quired
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word required.
Princeton's WordNet
needed, needful, required, requisiteadjective
necessary for relief or supply
"provided them with all things needful"
compulsory, mandatory, requiredadjective
required by rule
"in most schools physical education is compulsory"; "attendance is mandatory"; "required reading"
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required
Required refers to something that is made necessary or is demanded by circumstances, law, rule, regulation or by a particular situation. It usually implies that there will be consequences for non-compliance or not fulfilling the stated necessary condition or task.
Webster Dictionary
Required
of Require
Editors Contribution
required
For a specific purpose.
They required passports to travel abroad.
Submitted by MaryC on February 1, 2020
requiredverb
Verb form of the word require.
They required many people to prepare the field for the wedding, all gathered and it was completed efficiently.
Submitted by MaryC on August 12, 2020
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'required' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #645
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'required' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2094
Adjectives Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'required' in Adjectives Frequency: #609
Usage in printed sourcesFrom:
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of required in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of required in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of required in a Sentence
Suppose this required testing every American every week and that each test cost $20, the $6.6billion price tag would be less than one-tenth of the weekly cost of the Cares Act.
I'm pleased to have been an early backer of Bill Gross's novel solar concentration technology, its capacity to achieve the high temperatures required for these processes is a promising development in the quest to one day replace fossil fuel.
She is viewed in disgrace by the majority of South Koreans, park Geun-hye was removed after the constitutionally required number of National Assembly members voted for impeachment.
Attorney General Marty Jackley:
It has always been my position that the citizens of our state should define marriage, and not the federal government, five members of the U.S. Supreme Court have now determined neither the States nor our citizens have the right or the ability to define marriage. Because we are a Nation of laws the State will be required to follow the Court's order.
The construction site for us, as a robotics researcher, is an interesting environment because it somewhere in between the completely planned and controlled environment of a factory or a lab floor, and the completely chaotic environment of outdoors, so it's kind of a semi-structured environment where we can test and develop the technology that is required for robots to move around and do useful things in such environments.
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- مطلوبArabic
- PožadovanéCzech
- påkrævetDanish
- erforderlichGerman
- απαιτείταιGreek
- postulataEsperanto
- necesarioSpanish
- edellytetäänFinnish
- Champs obligatoiresFrench
- ag teastáilIrish
- आव� ्यकHindi
- kívántHungarian
- yg dibutuhkanIndonesian
- necessarioItalian
- נדרשHebrew
- 必要Japanese
- ಅಗತ್ಯವಿದೆKannada
- 필수의Korean
- requiriturLatin
- vereistDutch
- nødvendigNorwegian
- wymaganyPolish
- obrigatórioPortuguese
- necesarRomanian
- необходимыйRussian
- nödvändigSwedish
- தேவைTamil
- అవసరంTelugu
- จำเป็นต้องใช้Thai
- gerekliTurkish
- необхіднийUkrainian
- کی � رورت ہےUrdu
- yêu cầuVietnamese
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