needs

[ needz ]

/ nidz /

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adverb

of necessity; necessarily (usually preceded or followed by must): It must needs be so. It needs must be.

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Origin of needs

before 1000; Middle English nedis,Old English nēdes, originally genitive of nēdneed; see -s¹

Words nearby needs

needlewoman, needlework, need like a hole in the head, needling, needn't, needs, needs test, needy, Néel, Néel point, neem

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Following the Apatow references, Marge informs Homer that she needs to use the “Porta Potty.”
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“If Charleston harbor needs improvement, let the commerce of Charleston bear the burden,” he said.
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Urbanity ushers in water that needs no apology, and gives a zest to the worst vintage.
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Yet if there is a measure of untruth in such pretty flatteries, one needs to be superhuman in order to condemn them harshly.
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In one sense, then, the new issue has adequate expansibility for ordinary needs.
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Even genius, however, needs direction and adjustment to secure the most perfect and reliable results.
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The poverty of earlier days was the outcome of the insufficiency of human labor to meet the primal needs of human kind.
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British Dictionary definitions for needs

needs

/ (niːdz) /

adverb

(preceded or foll by must) of necessitywe must needs go; we will go, if needs must

pl n

what is required; necessitiesthe needs of the third world; his needs are modest

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