There are more than 50 countries that export coffee. They are near the equator, where the climate is conducive to producing coffee beans.
REQUIRES
Verb
requires
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of require
Anagrams
• queriers, querries
Source: Wiktionary
REQUIRE
Re*quire" (r-kwr"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Required (-kwrd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Requiring.] Etym: [OE. requeren, requiren, OF. requerre, F. requ; L. pref. re- re- + quaerere to ask; cf. L. requirere. See Query, and cf. Request, Requisite.]
1. To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property. Shall I say to Cæsar What you require of him Shak. By nature did what was by law required. Dryden.
2. To demand or exact as indispensable; to need. just gave what life required, and gave no more. Goldsmith. The two last [biographies] require to be particularly noticed. J. A. Symonds.
3. To ask as a favor; to request. I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way. Ezra viii. 22.
Syn.
– To claim; exact; enjoin; prescribe; direct; order; demand; need.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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