prerequisite

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ requisite.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɹiːˈɹɛkwɪzɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /pɹiˈɹɛkwəzət/, /pɹiˈɹɛkwɪzɪt/

Adjective

prerequisite (not comparable)

1. Required as a prior condition of something else; necessary or indispensable.

   The prerequisite warm-up to the match was ignored.

   A good command of Spanish is prerequisite for enrolling in this course.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:requisite

Derived terms

• non-prerequisite

Translations

indispensable

French: prérequis (fr), préalable (fr), nécessaire (fr) Georgian: აუცილებელი (aucilebeli) German: unabdingbar (de), unverzichtbar (de), vorauszusetzen (de), zwingend erforderlich, als Vorbedingung geltend

Noun

prerequisite (plural prerequisites)

1. Something that is required as necessary or indispensable, or as a prior condition of something else.

   A degree is a prerequisite for entry into this profession.

   • 1995, Richard Olson, Science Deified & Science Defied:

     Only a full-scale analysis of the origin and development of our sensations and ideas can provide this knowledge; so Hartley's associationist psychology becomes the prerequisite for moral knowledge.

   • 2009, Rob Bovey, Stephen Bullen, Dennis Wallentin, John Green, Professional Excel Development:

     If you examine the prerequisites list, you will notice it does not include bootstrapper packages for the Office 2003 PIAs.

2. In education, a course or topic that must be completed before another course or topic can be started. May be colloquially referred to as a prereq.

   Algebra is typically a prerequisite for physics.

Hypernyms

• requisite

Derived terms

• non-prerequisite

Related terms

• corequisite
• requirement

Translations

Something that must be gained in order to gain something else

Azerbaijani: zəmin, şərait (az) Bulgarian: предпоставка (bg) f (predpostavka) Chinese: Mandarin: 前提 (zh) (qiántí) Czech: předpoklad (cs) m Danish: forudsætning c Dutch: voorwaarde (nl) f, vereiste (nl) f or n Estonian: eeldus Faroese: treyt f Finnish: edellytys (fi), ennakkoehto French: (condition) préalable (fr) m, prérequis (fr) m Georgian: წინაპირობა (c̣inaṗiroba), წინასწარი მოთხოვნა (c̣inasc̣ari motxovna) German: Voraussetzung (de) f, Vorbedingung (de) f, Unabdingbarkeit f, zwingendes Erfordernis n Hungarian: előfeltétel (hu), előkövetelmény Indonesian: prasyarat (id) Japanese: 前提 (ja) (ぜんてい, zentei), 前提条件 (zenteijouken) Latvian: priekšnoteikums m Norwegian: Bokmål: forutsetning (no) m or f, betingelse m Persian: پیشنیاز (pišniyāz) Polish: warunek wstępny m Portuguese: pré-requisito m Russian: предпосы́лка (ru) f (predposýlka) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: преду́слов m, преду́вјет m Roman: predúslov m, predúvjet (sh) m Spanish: requisito (es) m, requisito previo m, condición previa f Swedish: förutsättning (sv) c, betingelse (sv) c Turkish: ön koşul (tr) sg

In education, a course or topic that must be completed before another course or topic can be started

Chinese: Mandarin: 先修(課程) / 先修(课程) Dutch: vereiste (nl) f or n Finnish: esitietovaatimus (fi) French: prérequis (fr) m Georgian: წინაპირობა (c̣inaṗiroba) German: Teilnahmevoraussetzung f Persian: پیشنیاز (pišniyāz) Portuguese: pré-requisito m Russian: предусловие (ru) n (preduslovije) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: преду́слов m, преду́вјет m Roman: predúslov m, predúvjet (sh) m

See also

• perquisite (avoid hastily confusing this word with prerequisite: one concerns job compensation; the other, job requirements)