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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | directive, instruction |
| Synonyms: | act, adjuration, ban, behest, bidding, call, canon, caveat, charge, citation, commandment, decree, demand, devoir, dictate, dictation, dictum, direction, duty, edict, enactment, exaction, fiat, imperative, imposition, injunction, interdiction, law, mandate, notification, obligation, order, ordinance, precept, prescript, proclamation, prohibition, proscription, regulation, request, requirement, requisition, responsibility, rule, subpoena, summons, ultimatum, warrant, will, word, writ |
| Notes: | an order is being told to do something with no specific guidelines, a command is being told to do something in a specific way, and a directive is being told to do something and getting this information through channels |
| Antonyms: | contradiction, countermand, opposition, recall, reversal, revocation |
| Main Entry: | mandate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | authority, order |
| Synonyms: | authorization, behest, bidding, blank check, carte blanche, charge, command, commission, decree, dictate, directive, edict, fiat, go-ahead, green light, imperative, injunction, instruction, okay*, precept, sanction, warrant, word* |
| Antonyms: | denial, veto |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | must |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | necessity, essential |
| Synonyms: | charge, commitment, committal, condition, devoir, duty, fundamental, imperative, necessary, need, obligation, ought, precondition, prerequisite, requirement, requisite, right, sine qua non |
| Main Entry: | necessity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | need, essentiality |
| Synonyms: | call, cause, claim, compulsion, demand, desideratum, duress, essence, essential, exaction, exigency, fundamental, godsend, imperative, indispensability, inevitability, inexorableness, life or death, must, necessary, needfulness, no alternative, no choice, obligation, pinch, precondition, prerequisite, privation, requirement, requisite, sine qua non, stress, undeniability, urgency, vital part, vitals, want |
| Antonyms: | desire, want |
| Main Entry: | prerequisite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | condition, necessity |
| Synonyms: | essential, imperative, must, need, postulate, precondition, qualification, requirement, requisite, sine qua non |
| Notes: | a perquisite is a profit or benefit in addition to a salary or wages or a gratuity or tip for services performed, while a prerequisite is something that is required in advance |
| Antonyms: | extra, option |
| Main Entry: | requirement/requisite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | necessity, want |
| Synonyms: | claim, compulsion, concern, condition, demand, desideratum, element, engrossment, essential, exaction, exigency, extremity, fulfillment, fundamental, imperative, lack, must, need, obligation, obsession, pinch, precondition, preliminary, preoccupation, prepossession, prerequisite, prescription, provision, proviso, qualification, sine qua non, specification, stipulation, terms, urgency, vital part |
| Antonyms: | desire, option, wish |
| Main Entry: | state |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | condition or mode of being |
| Synonyms: | accompaniment, attitude, capacity, case, category, chances, character, circumstance, circumstances, contingency, element, environment, essential, estate, event, eventuality, fix, footing, form, frame of mind, humor, imperative, juncture, limitation, mood, nature, occasion, occurrence, outlook, pass, phase, plight, position, posture, predicament, prerequisite, proviso, reputation, requirement, shape, situation, spirits, stand, standing, state of affairs, station, status, stipulation, time, welfare |
| Main Entry: | ethics |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | morality |
| Synonyms: | belief, conduct, conscience, convention, conventionalities, criteria, decency, ethic, ethos, goodness, honesty, honor, ideal, imperative, integrity, moral code, morality, mores, natural law, nature, practice, principles, standard, standards, value |
| Notes: | morality is beliefs regarding appropriate behavior, while ethics is the formal study of morality |
| Main Entry: | requirement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | necessity |
| Synonyms: | claim, compulsion, concern, condition, demand, desideratum, element, engrossment, essential, exaction, exigency, extremity, fulfillment, fundamental, imperative, lack, must, need, obligation, obsession, pinch, precondition, preliminary, preoccupation, prepossession, prerequisite, prescription, provision, proviso, qualification, requisite, specification, stipulation, stress, terms, urgency, vital part, want |
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