Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make necessary or unavoidable.
- transitive verb To require or compel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make necessary or indispensable; render unavoidable; cause to be a necessary consequence.
- To force irresistibly; compel; oblige; impel by necessity.
- To reduce to a state of need; threaten or oppress by necessity or need, or the prospect of need.
- Synonyms To constrain, drive.
- Necessitated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make necessary or indispensable; to render unavoidable.
- transitive verb To reduce to the necessity of; to force; to compel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To require something to be
brought about .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb require as useful, just, or proper
- verb cause to be a concomitant
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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Our ability to navigate the compromises those conflicting rights necessitate is what makes us good at living collectively, or not.
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We are said to have converted a proposition per accidens, or by limitation, when the rules for the distribution of terms necessitate a reduction in the original quantity of the proposition.
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If they don't, what will their Ministerial salary be, and what increase will the posts 'necessitate' to the staffing etc. of the existing regional offices?
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It leaves us vulnerable to dubious claims about the next demon du jour whose supposedly threatening actions "necessitate" U.S. military invasion in order to keep the world
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Regardless of your generation, the economic climate is going to necessitate that we all learn how to communicate and work together.
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I wonder sometime if such concerns will necessitate the development of a cohesive international space traffic regulation agency.
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So that depending upon the level of sophistication of the Libyan air defense, it will necessitate some type of minimization or neutralization of those defenses.
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This man is known to the federal legal system as a military imposter of such magnitude as to warrant federal charges and prosecution in a court of law, and to necessitate special stipulations precluding his making those military claims in any way, shape, or form.
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So that depending upon the level of sophistication of the Libyan air defense, it will necessitate some type of minimization or neutralization of those defenses.
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So that depending upon the level of sophistication of the Libyan air defense, it will necessitate some type of minimization or neutralization of those defenses.
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