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  • noun Plural form of requisite.

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Examples

  • One of my requisites is finding a "powder" that fits quite well with all calibers.

    Our Most Underrated Cartridge? 2008

  • That Charles Ritchie does have these requisites is patently established in each of the four interlocking volumes he has published; The Siren Years (1974), An Appetite for Life (1977), Diplomatic Passport (1981), and the final book of the quartet, Storm Signals (1983).

    Ritchie, Charles 1984

  • To prepare any nation for defence there are two main requisites-time and money.

    Condensed Militarism in Canada 1904

  • It is measured solely by man's essential and universal needs, and describes in general terms the requisites of normal and reasonable human life.

    A Concrete Estimate of a Living Wage: An Excerpt 2008

  • The requisites are a board consisting of 64 squares of alternate black and white, and 32 pieces of wood, ivory, bone or other composition, which are technically known as "men."

    Entertainments for Home, Church and School Frederica Seeger

  • They also have projectors which are capable of delivering heavy high explosives or oil-filled incendiary bombs covering a large area, and these are employed when accuracy of fire is not one of the main requisites.

    The Development of Army Equipment 1943

  • The requisites are a sharp-pointed bistoury, blunt-pointed scissors, and a pair of Henry's phimosis forceps, with fine needles and fine oculists 'suture silk.

    History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886

  • Their requisites are a pocketful of cherry stones and a small screw, not an expensive outfit, for they save the "hogs" when they are permitted to eat cherries, as sometimes, by the indulgence of a kindly fruiterer, they are, for he kindly throws all his rotten or unsaleable fruit into the gutter.

    London's Underworld Thomas Holmes 1882

  • The first of the requisites is a stout stomach -- before a furnished head!

    Celt and Saxon — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

  • The first of the requisites is a stout stomach -- before a furnished head!

    Celt and Saxon — Complete George Meredith 1868

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