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re·quired

(rĭ-kwīrd′)

adj.

1. Needed; essential: missing several required parts.

2. Obligatory: required reading.

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required

(rɪˈkwaɪəd)

adj

essential, needed, or necessaryset out by rule; compulsory

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Adj.	1.	required - necessary for relief or supply; "provided them with all things needful" needed, needful, requisite necessary - absolutely essential
	2.	required - required by rule; "in most schools physical education is compulsory"; "attendance is mandatory"; "required reading" compulsory, mandatory obligatory - morally or legally constraining or binding; "attendance is obligatory"; "an obligatory contribution"

required

adjective

1. obligatory, prescribed, compulsory, mandatory, needed, set, demanded, necessary, called for, essential, recommended, vital, unavoidable, requisite, de rigueur (French) This book is required reading.
obligatory voluntary, optional, not necessary, unimportant, elective, not vital, noncompulsory

2. desired, right, chosen, preferred, selected, correct, of choice Hold the door open, at the required height.

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required

adjective

1. Incapable of being dispensed with:

essential, indispensable, necessary, needful, requisite.

2. Imposed on one by authority, command, or convention:

compulsory, imperative, mandatory, necessary, obligatory, requisite.

Translations

απαραίτητος

obligatoire requis

required

[rɪˈkwaɪəd] ADJ

1. (= necessary) → necesario
cut the wood to the required length → corte la madera del largo que se necesite
he couldn't raise the required amount of money → no pudo recaudar los fondos necesarios
the qualities required for the job → las cualidades que se requieren para el puesto

2. (= fixed) → establecido
within the required time → dentro del plazo establecido

3. (= compulsory) [reading] → obligatorio

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required

[rɪˈkwaɪə^rd] adj [level, amount, standard, time, conditions] → requis(e)required reading n

(for school, university, single text) → ouvrage m au programme; (more than one text) → ouvrages mpl au programme

(= a must read)
This book is required reading for anyone interested in the Amazon → Ce livre est une lecture à ne pas manquer pour quiconque s'intéresse à l'Amazone.
These two reports became required reading in Western intelligence services → Ces deux rapports devinrent une lecture obligatoire pour les services secrets occidentaux.

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required

adj → erforderlich, notwendig; date → vorgeschrieben; (= desired) → gewünscht; the required amount → die benötigte Menge

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required

[rɪˈkwaɪəd] adj (qualifications, exams) → richiesto/a; (amount) → voluto/a
in the required time → nel tempo prescritto

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required

a. requerido-a, necesario-a; mandatorio-a.

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In all bargains, whether to fight or to marry, or concerning any other such business, little previous ceremony is required to bring the matter to an issue when both parties are really in earnest.

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Then more than four citizens will be required; for the husbandman will not make his own plough or mattock, or other implements of agriculture, if they are to be good for anything.

Then there must be another class of citizens who will bring the required supply from another city?

Then more husbandmen and more artisans will be required?

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This, however, required not less than sixty- eight vessels of 1,000 tons, a veritable fleet, which, quitting New York on the 3rd of May, on the 10th of the same month ascended the Bay of Espiritu Santo, and discharged their cargoes, without dues, in the port at Tampa Town.

The operation, to be successful, required to be conducted with great rapidity.

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This idea admits not of precise demonstration, because there is no rule by which we can measure the momentum of civil power necessary to the government of any given number of individuals; but when we consider that the island of Britain, nearly commensurate with each of the supposed confederacies, contains about eight millions of people, and when we reflect upon the degree of authority required to direct the passions of so large a society to the public good, we shall see no reason to doubt that the like portion of power would be sufficient to perform the same task in a society far more numerous.

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Two or three cocktails were required to produce the original effect of one.

As the world measures such things, I am a success--I dare to say a success more conspicuous than the success of the average successful man, and a success that required a pretty fair amount of brains and will power.

I required two, three, or four drinks to get an effect commensurate with the effect the average man got out of one drink.

The more I drank the more I was required to drink to get an equivalent effect.

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Seeing that his most gracious ruler was calm once more, Michaud also grew calm, but was not immediately ready to reply to the Emperor's direct and relevant question which required a direct answer.