The required safety training for new employees covers emergency evacuation procedures and proper equipment handling.
新员工必需的安全培训涵盖了紧急疏散程序和正确的设备操作。
A recent survey of small business owners found that the most commonly cited obstacle to growth was not access to capital, as many assume, but difficulty finding workers with the specific technical skills the business required.
From a Central Ideas and Details question · Information and Ideas
- Before refrigerators, households relied on iceboxes, which required regular ice deliveries.
From a Rhetorical Synthesis question · Expression of Ideas
Historian Ian Farrow agrees that the mechanical clock mattered but argues that the expansion of railway networks, which required synchronized timekeeping across distant towns, was an equally necessary precondition for the widespread adoption of standardized time.
From a Cross-Text Connections question · Craft and Structure
Which choice best defines “required”?
C — Necessary according to rules or for a particular purpose. “required” means necessary according to rules or for a particular purpose.
Which word means “necessary according to rules or for a particular purpose”?
A — required. “required” means necessary according to rules or for a particular purpose.
required — necessary according to rules or for a particular purpose. In Chinese: 必需的，要求的.
required is pronounced /rɪˈkwaɪərd/.
The required safety training for new employees covers emergency evacuation procedures and proper equipment handling. (新员工必需的安全培训涵盖了紧急疏散程序和正确的设备操作。)
mandatory, obligatory, compulsory — all close in meaning to required (necessary according to rules or for a particular purpose).
optional, voluntary — each the opposite of required (necessary according to rules or for a particular purpose).
Yes. required is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.