History
History
Synonyms
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Meaning:
bylaw

a law or regulation made by a local authority (e.g. a city council or railway company)

rules of a government, society

claim

an act of claiming something; a sum of money demanded

property, right demanded or reserved

clause

a part of a sentence with its own subject and predicate, especially one doing the work of a noun, adjective or adverb

provision in document

command

an order

directive, instruction

demand

to ask for (something) as if ordering or as if one has a right to

question, request

dictate

to say, read, aloud (words to be written down by another or others)

command; rule

jurisprudence

the science and philosophy of law

rules of a government, society

law

a rule made by authority for the proper regulation of a community or society or for behaviour

rules of a government, society

must

something that it is essential to see, do, hear etc; (used to express an obligation or an order)

necessity, essential

necessity

the state, condition (e.g. a law of nature, a (serious) need, a social rule etc) that makes a certain result unavoidable; something that one cannot be, live etc without

need, essentiality

obligation

a promise, duty or condition that shows what action ought to be taken (e.g. the law, one's duty, a sense of what is right)

responsibility

ought

(used to tell a person about a present or past duty or obligation) (used to express an opinion, give advice etc about the present or past)

necessity, essential

requisite

(something) that is necessary

need

state

a condition in which a person or thing is (in appearance, mind, health etc); an organized political community with a government; to express (an opinion etc) in words, especially carefully, fully and clearly

condition or mode of being

want

to feel a desire or need for (a person, thing); to need (something to be done); the state of being absent

desire

REQUIREMENT as in Wiktionary
REQUIREMENT as in Wikipedia