needs

/niːdz/ · adverb

Meaning

Of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; used with an auxiliary verb (often must), and equivalent to "of need".
A requirement for something; something needed.
Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
To have an absolute requirement for.
To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
(modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).
To be required; to be necessary.
To be necessary (to someone).

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Related words

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Sources

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