· 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 postulate a patient's consent"

Synonym(s): necessitate, ask, postulate, need, take, involve, call_for, demand

· 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"

Synonym(s): ask, expect

Hypernym(s): demand

· make someone do something

Synonym(s): command

Hypernym(s): order, tell, enjoin, say

· have need of; "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"

Synonym(s): want, need

Hypernym(s): be

· necessary for relief or supply; "provided them with all things needful"

Synonym(s): needed, needful, requisite

· required by rule; "in most schools physical education is compulsory"; "attendance is mandatory"; "required reading"

Synonym(s): compulsory, mandatory