Prerequisite

Adjective

 * 1) required as a prior condition of something else; necessary or indispensable

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:requisite

Noun

 * 1) Something that must be gained in order to gain something else
 * Having a decent qualification is a prerequisite to getting a good job in marketing.
 * 1) 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.

Related terms

 * corequisite

Thesaurus
arrangement, bare necessities, basic training, boundary condition, briefing, call for, called for, catch, clause, clearing the decks, condition, demand, demand for, demanded, desideration, desideratum, donnee, equipment, escalator clause, escape clause, escape hatch, essential, essentials, familiarization, fine print, fixing, foundation, given, grounds, groundwork, imperative, indicated, indispensable, irreducible, irreductible, irreplaceable, joker, kicker, limiting condition, makeready, making ready, manufacture, mobilization, must, must item, necessaries, necessary, necessities, necessitous, necessity, need, need for, needed, needful, obligation, obligatory, occasion, parameter, planning, prearrangement, precondition, preliminaries, preliminary, preliminary act, preliminary step, prep, preparation, preparative, preparatory, preparatory study, preparing, prepping, prerequirement, pretreatment, processing, propaedeutic, provident, provision, provisional, provisions, proviso, qualification, readying, required, requirement, requisite, requisition, saving clause, sine qua non, small print, spadework, specification, stipulation, string, terms, the necessary, the needful, training, treatment, trial, tryout, ultimatum, unforgoable, vital, want, wanted, warm-up, whereas

Translations

 * Danish:
 * Estonian;
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: (condition) ,
 * German: Voraussetzung


 * Hungarian:, előkövetelmény
 * Portuguese: pré-requisito
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: preduslov, preduvet


 * Finnish: esitietovaatimus
 * French:


 * Portuguese: pré-requisito
 * Serbian: preduslov, preduvet


 * : Vorbedingung, Voraussetzung
 * : condição prévia


 * : requisito previo, condición previa