requisite

adjective

req·ui·site | \ ˈre-kwə-zət

Definition of requisite

: needed for a particular purpose : essential, necessary has the requisite skills/knowledge/experience for the job … the bill was ultimately pulled after it became clear it would not get the requisite number of votes needed to pass the House …— Kaitlyn Schallhorn Classic Korean dishes, such as braised short ribs and meat dumplings, would be set out alongside the requisite [Thanksgiving] turkey and mashed potatoes.— Martha Fay Politics, to one degree or another, are a requisite part of committee work …— Angela D. Thompsell

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requisite noun, plural requisites

For my part, I have never seen why a Ph.D. should be a requisite for college-level teaching. — Andrew Hacker

requisiteness noun

… the moral optimality of their conduct does not eliminate the wrongness of what they have done or the requisiteness of legal sanctions in response. — Matthew H. Kramer

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Acquiring an understanding of where requisite comes from won't require a formal inquiry. Without question, the quest begins with Latin quaerere, which means "to ask" or "to seek." That word is ancestor to a number of English words, including acquire, require, inquiry, question, quest, and, of course, requisite. From quaerere came requirere, meaning "to ask again." Repeated requests can express a need, and the past participle of Latin requirere, which is requisitus, came to mean "needed" or "necessary." English acquired requisite when it was adopted into Middle English back in the 1400s.

Examples of requisite in a Sentence

this new CD is the requisite album of the year for classical music lovers

Recent Examples on the Web The Celtics could gamble that Tatum, 24, and Brown, 25, blossom enough as ball-handlers to provide the requisite playmaking upgrade with Smart aboard. — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2022 And when the hundreds of hours of existing television coverage can’t provide the requisite scene-setting, announcers are brought in to record facsimiles. — New York Times, 14 July 2022 In addition, at Old Trafford at that Opening Game, an extra barrier was added to keep the players and journalists the requisite distance apart. — Asif Burhan, Forbes, 12 July 2022 Those bangs made a swift exit when filming finished, though, and Bell was back to her requisite blonde bob. — Hedy Phillips, PEOPLE.com, 6 July 2022 But the pandemic happened, preventing the kind of travel and collaboration necessary to gather requisite works. — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2022 Is this requisite companion app accessible in its own right? — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 24 June 2022 From there, Hart and Harrelson embark on the requisite hijinks together. — Andy Meek, BGR, 23 June 2022 With a five-minute limit between selections and the requisite TV timeouts, that would mean a Heat selection some time after 10:30 p.m. — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 June 2022 See More

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