requisite

UK/ˈɹɛkwɪzɪt/US/ˈɹɛkwɪzɪt/

nounC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,491 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: requisites

A requisite is something that is required for a purpose. The requisite skills, a requisite for entry, lacking the requisite experience.

It works as adjective and noun, and the adjective is the commoner: the requisite number means the number that is required. It is a shade more formal than necessary and belongs to rules and regulations.

Definitions of requisite

1nounrequisiteSomething that is required for a purpose.C1
“A good sense of humour is a requisite for working with young children.”

requisite is a requirement.

Where it comes from

Latin requisitus is the past participle of requirere, to seek out, the source of require.

Latin
requīsītus
English, today
requisite

Built from

requīrō · Latin — to require, seek, ask for

From Latin requīsītus, perfect passive participle of requīrō (“to require, seek, ask for”), from which English require.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

requisite in the wild

Some help desks may have telephone systems with ACD splits ensuring that calls about specific topics are put through to analysts with the requisite experience or knowledge.
Help desk
Augustine and Pliny agree with the main aspects of the story but claim the requisite waiting period was ten years, not nine.
Damarchus
Many species migrate considerable distances to reach the requisite breeding locations.
Breeding in the wild
Ruhm und Ewigkeit was published at the end of the 1908 first edition of Ecce Homo; however, it is now deemed to be a requisite part of Dionysos-Dithyramben.
Dionysian Dithyrambs

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the requīrō family

request require

requisite — used about once every 8,972 pages · #11,491 · point at the bar for the others

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