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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Required or necessary as a prior condition: Competence is prerequisite to promotion.
  2. n. Something that is prerequisite, as a course that is required prior to taking an advanced course.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Previously required; necessary as a condition of something following.
  2. n. A condition required beforehand; a preliminary necessity.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Required as a prior condition of something else; necessary or indispensable.
  2. n. Something that must be gained in order to gain something else
  3. n. In education, a course or topic that must be completed before another course or topic can be started. May be colloquially referred to as a prereq.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to any proposed effect or end.
  2. n. Something previously required, or necessary to an end or effect proposed.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. something that is required in advance
  2. adj. required as a prior condition or course of study

Etymologies

  1. From pre- +‎ requisite. (Wiktionary)

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