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needer
Variant of need
noun
- necessity or obligation created by some situation: no need to worry
- a lack of something useful, required, or desired: to have need of a rest
- something useful, required, or desired that is lacking; want; requirement: list your daily needs
- a condition in which there is a deficiency of something, or one requiring relief or supply: a friend in need
- a condition of poverty, or extreme want
transitive verb
to have need of; want or lack; require: need is often used as an auxiliary, either uninflected and followed by an infinitive without to, or inflected and followed by an infinitive with to, meaning “to be obliged, must”: he need not come, he needs to be careful
intransitive verb
- Archaic to be necessary; chiefly in impersonal constructions: it needs not
- to be in need
Related Forms:
- needer noun
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