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  • noun Plural form of prerequisite.

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Examples

  • It would allow undocumented students, like Herta, to become legal residents depending on certain prerequisites, like age of arrival and years of study.

    Global Voices in English » USA: “I am getting deported on Wednesday” 2009

  • In fact, the civil service system, with its various tests and more strict attitude toward prerequisites, is more egalitarian than private sector work, where making connections is far more essential.

    Matthew Yglesias » Public Sector Pay 2010

  • I'm all for lay people forming their own opinions, but as an educator I can tell you that there are certain prerequisites if you want to do that.

    Blogginheads Controversy 2009

  • Olegt: I'm all for lay people forming their own opinions, but as an educator I can tell you that there are certain prerequisites if you want to do that.

    Blogginheads Controversy 2009

  • I'm all for lay people forming their own opinions, but as an educator I can tell you that there are certain prerequisites if you want to do that.

    Blogginheads Controversy 2009

  • In the spring of my senior year I took an SAT-type test for English that (I think) had something to do with allowing one to skip certain prerequisites in graduate school.

    Great Books High Schools Linda 2008

  • President Obama repeatedly and rightly discusses the longer-term prerequisites for restoring competitiveness: investments in infrastructure, renewable energy, job training, and quality education.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jeffrey Sachs 2011

  • Of course, for this plan to make any sense at all we will need two prerequisites, which is a fancy, if stupid, way of saying the even-more-stupid, we will need two needs: A desire for income, and a plausible legal problem, requiring adjudication at trial, of greater than parochial interest.

    Ellis Weiner: Try Me a River (of Revenue!) 2008

  • Requiring your audience to undertake an experience, such as visiting a relevant person or place before a meeting; running through “Process A” before a session so they will be ready to learn “Process B”; or developing or practicing skills that you have identified as prerequisites for work you will ask them to perform during your presentation.

    Life Is a Series of Presentations Tony Jeary with Kim Dower 2004

  • Requiring your audience to undertake an experience, such as visiting a relevant person or place before a meeting; running through “Process A” before a session so they will be ready to learn “Process B”; or developing or practicing skills that you have identified as prerequisites for work you will ask them to perform during your presentation.

    Life Is a Series of Presentations Tony Jeary with Kim Dower 2004

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