Requirement : nf (word from latin demanding).
The word “requirement” has several meanings:
1. Action of demanding; what is required.
Old meaning: What is ordered by the circumstances (need, necessity).
According to the requirements of the business, of the situation: according to what the business, the situation requires.
2. In the plural: What a person (and by extension: a community, a country) claims, demands of others.
If you let yourself go, his demands will soon know no bounds (demand).
Especially: What is asked, in money (price, salary).
What are your requirements? (condition, claim).
Meet the requirements of a customer (request).
3. What the human being demands as necessary for the satisfaction of his needs, his desires, his aspirations (need, desire).
Quotation from the French philosopher and historian, member of the French Academy Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893): "As his requirements [of man] grow with his satisfactions, he turns three-quarters of his effort towards the acquisition of good -be ".
Requirements of nature, of instinct (appetite).
Quote from the French writer and editor Jacques Chardonne, pen name of Jacques Boutelleau (1884-1968): “Consistency is my first requirement in love”.
Quote from the French writer Albert Camus (1913-1960): “This requirement for clarity and cohesion”.
4. Character of a demanding person, difficult to please. He is unbearably demanding (tyranny).
Quote from the French writer Henry de Montherlant (1895-1972): “This positive idea that women have of happiness, and this requirement that they have vis-à-vis it”.
To be of a great moral, intellectual requirement towards oneself (rigour).
5. What is imposed by a discipline, a submission (constraint, discipline, imperative, law, obligation, order, rule).
Quote from the French writer André Gide (1869-1951): "The short story is very close to forming a genre since it must be limited to the requirements of the review or the newspaper".