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need

[need] / nid /






Usage

What are other ways to say need? The verb need often suggests urgency, stressing the necessity of supplying what is lacking: to need an operation, better food, a match to light the fire. Require, which expresses necessity as strongly as need, occurs most frequently in serious or formal contexts: Your presence at the hearing is required. Successful experimentation requires careful attention to detail. Lack means to be without or to have less than a desirable quantity of something: to lack courage, sufficient money, enough members to make a quorum. 

Example Sentences

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Although it’s important to check the weather before a hike and bring the right equipment and supplies, many judgment calls need to be made on the spot in response to changing conditions, he said.

From Los Angeles Times

They work with families with a child aged five and under to identify health needs.

From BBC

Simon Francis, from the End Fuel Poverty Coalition, said more needed to be done to help those who were struggling following the latest, small price increase.

From BBC

The local health bureau in Yunnan province said such data was needed to identify expectant mothers.

From BBC

"What babies need and what they learn from the best are simple, slow, repetitious, face-to-face interactions."

From BBC