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needs

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need
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Sense: Verb: require
Synonyms:
require Collocations, have need of, lack Collocations, miss Collocations, be in need of, feel the need for, feel the necessity for, be in urgent need of, have urgent need of, be in desperate need of, be in want of (dated), be short of, run short of, be without, cry out for, could do with (informal), not have, have to have, have use for, be deficient in, be deprived of, be starved of, be bereft of, long for, pine for, want Collocations, cannot go without, cannot do without, be hooked on (slang), be addicted to
Antonyms:
Sense: Verb: have to - followed by 'to'
Synonyms:
feel the need to, have to, must Collocations, should Collocations, should really, ought to, ought Collocations, want to, be obliged to, be obligated to
Sense: Verb: necessitate
Synonyms:
require Collocations, demand Collocations, entail Collocations, necessitate, call for, stipulate, have as a requirement, make sth necessary
Sense: Noun: requirement
Synonyms:
necessity Collocations, requirement Collocations, requisite, prerequisite, obligation Collocations, compulsion, call Collocations, urgency, must Collocations, essential Collocations
Antonyms:
nonessential, nonnecessity, want Collocations, luxury Collocations, desire Collocations, wealth Collocations, fortune Collocations, excess Collocations
Sense: Noun: longing
Synonyms:
longing Collocations, craving Collocations, desire Collocations, wish Collocations, want Collocations, hunger Collocations, thirst Collocations, addiction Collocations
Sense: Noun: lack
Synonyms:
lack Collocations, insufficiency, deficiency, deficit, shortfall Collocations, shortage Collocations, dearth, gap Collocations, lacuna, shortcoming
Antonyms:
abundance, plenty Collocations, surplus Collocations, oversupply, abundance, enough Collocations, excess Collocations
Sense: Noun: poverty
Synonyms:
poverty Collocations, indigence, penury, privation, destitution, starvation Collocations, want Collocations, neediness
Antonyms:
wealth Collocations, affluence
Sense: Noun: emergency
Synonyms:
emergency Collocations, distress Collocations, urgency, dire straits, desperation, desperate situation

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