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requiring improvement

requiring improvement is the present participle and gerund 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 requiring improvement

What is requiring improvement the present participle and gerund of?
Requiring improvement is the present participle and gerund of require improvement.

Words near requiring improvement in the dictionary

  1. requires
  2. requires improvement
  3. requirest
  4. requireth
  5. requiring
  6. requiring improvement
  7. requirings
  8. requisite
  9. requisitely
  10. requisiteness
  11. requisites

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Adapted from Wiktionary: requiring 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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