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necessitar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • necessitate verb To make something needed, so that it has to happen.
  • need noun A requirement for something essential or important.
  • require verb To need something as essential.

Senses

necessitar is used for these senses in English:

  • necessitate (transitive) To make necessary; to behove; to require (something) to be brought about. [from early 17th c.]
  • need (transitive) To have an absolute requirement for.
  • need (intransitive) To be required; to be necessary.
  • require Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary. [from 15th c.]

necessitate — full definition

  1. verb To make something needed, so that it has to happen.
  2. verb To push someone into taking a particular course of action.

need — full definition

  1. noun A requirement for something essential or important.
  2. noun Poverty or lack of basic means of living.
  3. verb To require something as essential.
  4. verb To be obliged to do something.
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