noun. A condition or situation in which something must be supplied in order for a certain condition to be maintained or a desired state to be achieved.

noun. Something required or wanted; a requisite.

noun. Necessity; obligation.

noun. A condition of poverty or misfortune.

intransitive verb. To be under the necessity of or the obligation to.

intransitive verb. To have need of; require.

intransitive verb. To have an obligation (to do something).

intransitive verb. To be subject (to an action) by obligation.

intransitive verb. To want to be subject to.

intransitive verb. To be in need or want.

intransitive verb. To be necessary.

To have necessity or need for; want; lack; require.

Synonyms Ward, etc. See lack.

To be wanted; be necessary: used impersonally.

Needs; necessarily.

noun. The lack of something that is necessary or important; urgent want; necessity.

noun. Specifically, want of the means of subsistence; destitution; poverty; indigence; distress; privation.

noun. Time of want; exigency; emergency: as, “a friend in need is a friend indeed.”

noun. That which is needful; something necessary to be done.

noun. A perilous extremity.

noun. Synonyms Necessity, Need (see necessity and exigency) emergency, strait, extremity, distress.

noun. Want, Indigence, etc. See poverty.

intransitive verb. To be wanted; to be necessary.

adverb. Of necessity. See needs.

noun. A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

noun. Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.

noun. That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business.

noun. Situation of need; peril; danger.

transitive verb. To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.

noun. A requirement for something.

noun. Something required.

verb. To be necessary (to someone).

verb. To have an absolute requirement for.

verb. To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.

verb. To be obliged or required (to do something).

noun. a condition requiring relief

noun. anything that is necessary but lacking

noun. a state of extreme poverty or destitution

verb. have need of

verb. require as useful, just, or proper

verb. have or feel a need for

noun. the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior

"However, as president we need a leader who can bring people together and get things done for the good of all Americans, that is why we * need* Obama."

at need  necessity  poverty  

need-to-know basis  needed  needing  needsaaklik  unneeded  

essential  necessary  necessity  requirement  requisite  

claim  compel  cost  cry for  cry out for  

Aristide  Bede  Ede  Gilead  Mead  

bear  can  condition  desire  had  

absence  ardor  arrearage  ask  bare cupboard  

needs  

needed  needing  needs