essential
Example Sentences
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While most employees will be told to work from home for one day a week, essential workers - such as those in hospitals, schools and factories - will be excluded.
From BBC
Most Americans think of helium as the gas that holds balloons aloft, but, more important, it is an essential coolant in MRI machines and semiconductor manufacturing.
But Reid claims despite the rise, windows were rarely cleaned and progress on essential maintenance was slow.
From BBC
Measures have included throttling tourist flights to Japan and pinching Japanese firms’ access to rare-earth minerals and magnets essential for manufacturing.
Houston Food Bank, which distributes food and other essentials in southeast Texas counties, has been doing special distributions for TSA workers during the partial government shutdown, according to its president and CEO Brian Greene.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
