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required improvement

required improvement is the simple past and past participle of require improvement.

Meaning of require improvement

Verb

require improvement (third-person singular simple present requires improvement, present participle requiring improvement, simple past and past participle required improvement)

  1. (UK, stative) To be in a state of failing.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see require, improvement.

Questions about required improvement

What is required improvement the simple past and past participle of?
Required improvement is the simple past and past participle of require improvement.

Words near required improvement in the dictionary

  1. requirability
  2. requirable
  3. require
  4. require improvement
  5. required
  6. required improvement
  7. required run rate
  8. required run rates
  9. requirement
  10. requirements
  11. requirements contract

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Adapted from Wiktionary: required improvement (page history and authors); require improvement (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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