All 4 Uses of
prerequisite
in
The Remains of the Day
- Pressure to have these announced steadily mounted, and in response to a series of letters published in A Quarterly for the Gentleman's Gentleman, the Society admitted that a prerequisite for membership was that 'an applicant be attached to a distinguished household'.†
Chpt 1e - *
- But I have been thinking a little more about that other pronouncement made by the Hayes Society — namely the admission that it was a prerequisite for membership of the Society that 'the applicant be attached to a distinguished household'.†
Chpt 2a -
- Indeed, now that I think further on the matter, I believe it may well be true to say it is a prerequisite of greatness that one 'be attached to a distinguished household' — so long as one takes 'distinguished' here to have a meaning deeper than that understood by the Hayes Society.†
Chpt 2a -
- Indeed, the more one considers it, the more obvious it seems: association with a truly distinguished household is a prerequisite of 'greatness'.†
Chpt 2a -
Definition:
something that is required in advance -- especially a course already passed prior to taking another course