Synonyms

as_needed pro_re_nata prn

Examples

"add water as needed"

Used in print

Beginning in 1960 , the matching requirements for the base allotment are being adjusted ( upward or downward , as_required ) 25 % a_year , so that by 1963 the entire support allotment will be matched on the basis of a 40 % pivot State share , with maximum and minimum State shares of 50 % and 30 % , respectively .

General_Motors comprehensively contended that the Government plan would not be `` in the public interest '' as_required by the mandate of_this Court .

Finally , information is retrieved from the dictionary as_required by stages of the translation process - the grammatic description for sentence-structure determination , equivalent choice information for semantic analysis , and target-language equivalents for output construction .