Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Demand; requisition; requirement.

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  • verb Present participle of require.

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Examples

  • Representatives of organized labor pressed Summers to make sure that conferees close the bill's loophole that allows private equity and venture capital firms out of the title requiring hedge funds to register with the SEC.

    Summers Hears From Unions On Wall Street Reform 2010

  • The WH agreed with the groups on granular stuff related to consumer protection authority, such as funding, rulemaking, and preemption, and also that conferees ought to close the bill's loophole letting private equity and venture capital firms out of the title requiring hedge funds to register with the SEC.

    HUFFPOST HILL - JUNE 2ND, 2010 2010

  • It referred to a provision of the Juvenile Code which it characterized as requiring “that the probation officer shall look after the interests of neglected delinquent and dependent children,” including representing their interests in Court.

    Law In The Health and Human Services Donald T. Dickson 1995

  • Up. Now that games can feature several hours of high-quality recorded music rather than a handful of looped synthesizer themes, it's possible to play through a title requiring dozens of hours of gameplay without hearing the same melody more than a few times.

    CBC | Top Stories News 2010

  • Up. Now that games can feature several hours of high-quality recorded music rather than a handful of looped synthesizer themes, it's possible to play through a title requiring dozens of hours of gameplay without hearing the same melody more than a few times.

    CBC | Technology & Science News 2010

  • The NSW Court of Appeal has held that a term requiring payment of a specified sum on a particular date is enforceable as a debt due and owing, even in an executory contract of mutual obligations.

    Mondaq.Com - feed of articles 2009

  • Soon after I spoke with Sen. Obama, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of the United States Congress, issued a report dated April 17, 2008, with a title requiring no interpretation: "Combating Terrorism: The United States Lacks Comprehensive Plan to Destroy the Terrorist Threat and Close the Safe Haven in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas."

    Free Democracy 2008

  • There is real and immediate danger in requiring banks or broker dealers to maintain positions/not maintain positions in financial instruments, and huge danger in eroding the sophisticated investor, institutional investor class and designation.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Argument for More Regulation 2010

  • Jessica Silbey: Why go to materiality in requiring a stricter definition of sponsorship?

    IPSC: Trademark Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • Ricardo: I genuinely wonder why the U.S. does not adopt the same system that most other countries have in requiring people to pass through an immigration checkpoint as they leave the country.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Travel Data Leads to Times Square Bomb Arrest 2010

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