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necessity | American Dictionary

necessity
noun[ C/U ]
us/nəˈses·ɪ·t̬i/
the need for something, or something that is needed:
[ U ]Don’t you understand the necessity of eating a balanced diet?
[ U ]She was forced to take the job out of necessity.
[ C ]In my work, a computer is a necessity.

Examples of necessity

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Conversely, it also seems fairly clear that no new logical necessities can come about as the result of the realization of any logical possibility.
To give an objective answer to this question, it seems important to identify the range of extralinguistic sources in which necessities originate.
Their important expenses were all for necessities: food, utilities, rent (where relevant), telephone and transportation.
His policies were empirical, dictated by what he saw as the necessities of the immediate situation.
We can, perhaps, imagine other beings with different natures who would not labor under these necessities.
Most of the items in the secondary dimension, such as a car or a telephone, were not overwhelmingly regarded as necessities in 1987.
He reports that households that cannot afford necessities (even two or more) invariably have a number of non-necessities, an average of eight.
They are half naked, and almost entirely destitute of the common necessities of life.
Temporal autonomy is the freedom to spend one's time as one pleases, outside the necessities of everyday life.
The private developers also tried to satisfy the housing necessities of the working class.
Analysis shows that a specific social form (say, feudalism or commodity production) mediates necessities of social reproduction (say, division of labor).
Transforming a case about property rights and private, relational duties into a case about public necessities also deprived the railroad of its most powerful argument.
First, does the entity "abstract labor" exist universally in all social formations - does it belong to the general necessities of human reproduction?
In an isolated colonial outpost, economic levelling and the necessities of everyday life likely increased both interaction and material accommodation.
In the case of the necessities poor (deprived), the odds of being income poor are comparatively small after subjective poverty is taken into account.
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Collocations withnecessity

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absolute necessity
Demonstration of any expressive vocabulary would indicate that overt production is not an absolutenecessity for some expressive vocabulary growth to occur.
basic necessity
I should have thought that an adequate and complete filing system was a basicnecessity.
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