| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. Something asked for or needed: exigence, exigency (often used in plural), need, want. See NECESSARY, OVER. 2. The act of demanding: call, claim, cry, exaction, requisition. See REQUEST. | | VERB: | 1. To assert one's right to: claim. Idioms: lay claim to. See GIVE, OWNED, REQUEST. 2. To ask for urgently or insistently: call for, claim, exact, insist on or (upon), require, requisition. Idioms: cry out for. See REQUEST. 3. To have as a need or prerequisite: ask, call for, entail, involve, necessitate, require, take. See NECESSARY, OVER.
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