required

adj.

1. Needed; essential: missing several required parts.
2. Obligatory: required reading.

adjective

1. Incapable of being dispensed with: essential, indispensable, necessary, needful, requisite. See important/unimportant, necessary/unnecessary.
2. Imposed on one by authority, command, or convention: compulsory, imperative, mandatory, necessary, obligatory, requisite. See obligation.

IN BRIEF: adj. - Necessary for relief or supply; Demanded; Ordered; Needed.

Always do more than is required of you. — George Patton

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The adjective has 3 meanings:

Meaning #1: necessary for relief or supply
  Synonyms: needed, needful, requisite

Meaning #2: required by rule
  Synonyms: compulsory, mandatory

Meaning #3: required or ordered to
  Synonym: called upon

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Common misspelling(s) of required

• recquired

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