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require

v.

To need
want, lack, feel the necessity for, have need for; see need.
To insist upon
demand, oblige, necessitate, obligate, claim, exact, requisition, command, order, dictate, challenge, expect, compel, entail, look for, push for, assert oneself, call for, take no denial; see also ask 1.

require suggests a pressing need, often one inherent in the nature of a thing, or the binding power of rules or laws voters are required to register; demand implies a calling for as due or necessary, connoting a peremptory exercise of authority or an imperative need to demand obedience; claim implies an assertion of one's right to possess something to claim a throne; exact implies a demanding and the enforcing of the demand at the same time to exact a promise of help from her friends, to exact payment by the end of the week See also syn. study at lack.

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Another word for require

verb

To have as a need or prerequisite:
ask, call for, demand, entail, involve, necessitate, take. See necessary, over
To be without what is needed, required, or essential:
lack, need, want. See owned
To ask for urgently or insistently:
call for, claim, demand, exact, insist on (or upon), requisition. Idiom: cry out for. See request
To oblige to do or not do by force of authority, propriety, or custom:
expect, suppose. See obligation