unrequire
English
Etymology
un- + require
Verb
unrequire (third-person singular simple present unrequires, present participle unrequiring, simple past and past participle unrequired)
- To cancel the requirement for; to make something that is required into something that is not required.
- 1922, Ordnance - Volumes 3-4, page 272:
- ...today Colt's supremacy has been unrequiring the use of optical instruments.
- 1966, Galaxy Science Fiction - Volume 25, page 94:
- Being Auxorean, I unrequire artificial aids, but for you a booster.
- 2007, Ralph Alan Cohen, ShakesFear and how to Cure it: A Handbook for Teaching Shakespeare, →ISBN:
- To start with, as someone who believes that Shakespeare's work does have inherent greatness and wants others to experience and enjoy those works, I would celebrate any decision to unrequire Shakespeare.
- 2013, Up and Running with Autodesk Navisworks 2014, →ISBN, page i:
- This tool is available in the Unhide All flyout and is used to unrequire all the objects that were made required.
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