Requirement

English

Noun

Requirement (plural Requirements)

1. A necessity or prerequisite; something required or obligatory.
2. Something asked.
3. (engineering) A statement (in domain specific terms) which specifies a verifiable constraint on an implementation that it shall undeniably meet or (a) be deemed unacceptable, or (b) result in implementation failure, or (c) result in system failure.

Thesaurus

blackmail, call, call for, claim, condition, contribution, demand, desideratum, draft, drain, duty, essential, essentials, exaction, extortion, extortionate demand, heavy demand, imposition, impost, indent, indispensable, insistent demand, levy, must, must item, necessaries, necessities, necessity, need, notice, occasion, order, precondition, prerequisite, provision, proviso, qualification, requisite, requisition, rush, rush order, sine qua non, stipulation, tax, taxing, the necessary, the needful, tribute, ultimatum, want, warning

Synonyms

• (prerequisite): condition, prerequisite, necessity

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ɹɨˈkwɑjɚmɨnt/, /ɹɨˈkwɑj̆ɹmɨnt/