require

Meaning

Verb

• To ask (someone) for something; to request.
• To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively.
• Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary.
• To demand of (someone) to do something.

Related

Similar words

• call for

Origin

• From Old French requerre (French: requérir), from Vulgar Latin *requærere, from Latin requīrō.