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1. Require as useful, just, or proper
   "success usually requires hard work"
   - necessitate, ask, postulate, need, take, involve, call for, demand
    
2. Consider obligatory; request and expect
   "We require our secretary to be on time"
   - ask, expect
    
3. Make someone do something
   - command
    
4. Have need of
   - want, need

Derived forms: required, requiring, requires

See also: requirement, requisition

Type of: be, demand, enjoin, order, say, tell