nécessiter — meaning in English
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English meaning
- necessitate verb To make necessary; to behove; to require (something) to be brought about.
- need noun A requirement for something essential or important.
- require verb To need something as essential.
Senses
nécessiter is used for these senses in English:
- call for To necessitate, demand, exact; to make appropriate
- necessitate (transitive) To make necessary; to behove; to require (something) to be brought about. [from early 17th c.]
- need (intransitive) To be required; to be necessary.
- require To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively. [from 14th c.]
- require Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary. [from 15th c.]
necessitate — full definition
- verb To make necessary; to behove; to require (something) to be brought about.
- verb To force into a certain course of action; compel.
need — full definition
- noun A requirement for something essential or important.
- noun Poverty or lack of basic means of living.
- verb To require something as essential.
- verb To be obliged to do something.