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prerequisitepre‧req‧ui‧site /priːˈrekwəzət/ noun [countable] - Adequate food and shelter are the minimum prerequisites of a decent life.
- Some knowledge of the French language is a prerequisite for employment there.
- A minimal degree of integration is therefore a functional prerequisite of society.
- All too often these prerequisites were withheld, especially but not exclusively in the early stages of the Programme.
- As a practical matter, a receipt showing the amount of the expense is an absolute prerequisite to substantiating a travel expense.
- As for relations with the public, rudeness seems almost a prerequisite of government employment.
- At one time, physical presence was a prerequisite for first-hand experience.
- Having reliable data for the current year is, of course, a prerequisite of good budgets.
- The only important prerequisite is that there must be light: they do not thrive in dark tanks.
- What are the prerequisites before counselling another human being?
something that must happen before something else can happen► condition: condition for/of · Finance ministers claimed that all the conditions for economic revival were already in place.· In her view, women's full participation in the labor market is a necessary condition of equality.meet a condition · The Chancellor says that five conditions have to be met before the UK joins the Euro. ► precondition formal a situation that has to exist before something else can happen: precondition to/for/of: · The president has demanded that the rebels turn in their weapons as a precondition to any talks.· One of the most obvious preconditions for economic growth is a stable government. ► prerequisite formal something that you must have before something else is possible: prerequisite for/of: · Adequate food and shelter are the minimum prerequisites of a decent life.· Some knowledge of the French language is a prerequisite for employment there. ADJECTIVE► essential· That would be an essential prerequisite for any United Nations force being asked to take over a policing operation.· They consider that an exchange of information on this problem is an essential prerequisite.· An essential prerequisite for this work will be the definition of the directly implementable subsets of occam.· This issue of number portability is considered an essential prerequisite to competition.· Second, the process of increasing self-awareness is itself an essential prerequisite for emotional health.· Therefore self-observation is an essential prerequisite for his tack.· Control was merely the essential prerequisite to constructive administration.· The existence of expanding and contracting directions is an essential prerequisite for chaotic behaviour in dissipative systems of this sort. ► functional· These needs are known as functional prerequisites.· The major functions of social institutions are those which help to meet the functional prerequisites of society.· A minimal degree of integration is therefore a functional prerequisite of society.· They assume that society has certain basic needs or functional prerequisites which must be met if it is to survive.· They therefore look to social stratification to see how far it meets these functional prerequisites.· Thus a functional prerequisite of society involves at least a minimal degree of integration between the parts.· One such functional prerequisite is effective role allocation and performance.· The major institutions of society are justified by the belief that they are meeting the functional prerequisites of the social system. ► necessary· A number of different theories concerning the necessary prerequisites for the State have been proposed by anthropologists.· Is a trace of insanity a necessary prerequisite for originality?· However, the teaching of students is a necessary prerequisite of good patient care.· On the one hand, large-scale machine industry was seen as the necessary prerequisite for socialism. formal something that is necessary before something else can happen or be doneprerequisite for/of/to A reasonable proficiency in English is a prerequisite for the course. |