0 the need for something:
You can come early if you want to, but there's no necessity for it.
[ + to infinitive ] Is there any necessity to reply to her letter?
The report stresses the necessity of eating plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables.
With a personal fortune of sixty million dollars, she certainly doesn't work out of necessity (= because she needs to).
We'll employ extra staff to help out as and when the necessity arises (= when we need to).
1 the need for something, or something that is needed:
Eating is a biological necessity!
I took the job out of necessity because we had no money left.
With a courage born of necessity, she seized the gun and ran at him.
I had a couple of months to spare between jobs so I thought I'd make a virtue of necessity by acquiring a few new skills.
Conversely, it also seems fairly clear that no new logical necessities can come about as the result of the realization of any logical possibility.
To give an objective answer to this question, it seems important to identify the range of extralinguistic sources in which necessities originate.
Their important expenses were all for necessities: food, utilities, rent (where relevant), telephone and transportation.
His policies were empirical, dictated by what he saw as the necessities of the immediate situation.
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必要,需要, 必需的東西, (尤指)生活必需品…
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必要,需要, 必需的东西, (尤指)生活必需品…
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necesidad, cosa necesaria, necesidad [feminine…
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necessidade…
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必用品…
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gereklilik, zorunluluk, mecburiyet…
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nécessité [masculine], chose [feminine] indispensable, chose nécessaire…
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