· require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
Synonym(s): ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call_for, demand
Antonym(s): obviate
· cause to be a concomitant
Hypernym(s): lead