0 the need for something: --
We'll employ extra staff to help out as and when the necessity arises (= when we need to).
With a personal fortune of sixty million dollars, she certainly doesn't work out of necessity (= because she needs to).
The report stresses the necessity of eating plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables.
[ + to infinitive ] Is there any necessity to reply to her letter?
You can come early if you want to, but there's no necessity for it.
1 the need for something, or something that is needed: --
In the case of the necessities poor (deprived), the odds of being income poor are comparatively small after subjective poverty is taken into account.
In an isolated colonial outpost, economic levelling and the necessities of everyday life likely increased both interaction and material accommodation.
First, does the entity "abstract labor" exist universally in all social formations - does it belong to the general necessities of human reproduction?
Transforming a case about property rights and private, relational duties into a case about public necessities also deprived the railroad of its most powerful argument.
Analysis shows that a specific social form (say, feudalism or commodity production) mediates necessities of social reproduction (say, division of labor).
The private developers also tried to satisfy the housing necessities of the working class.
Temporal autonomy is the freedom to spend one's time as one pleases, outside the necessities of everyday life.
They are half naked, and almost entirely destitute of the common necessities of life.
