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Needs

adverb
1.
In such a manner as could not be otherwise.  Synonyms: inevitably, necessarily, of necessity.  "We must needs by objective"



Need

verb
(past & past part. needed; pres. part. needing)
1.
Require as useful, just, or proper.  Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, postulate, require, take.  "Success usually requires hard work" , "This job asks a lot of patience and skill" , "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice" , "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert" , "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
2.
Have need of.  Synonyms: require, want.
3.
Have or feel a need for.
noun
1.
A condition requiring relief.  Synonym: demand.  "God has no need of men to accomplish His work" , "There is a demand for jobs"
2.
Anything that is necessary but lacking.  Synonym: want.  "I tried to supply his wants"
3.
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.  Synonyms: motivation, motive.  "He acted with the best of motives"
4.
A state of extreme poverty or destitution.  Synonyms: indigence, pauperism, pauperization, penury.  "A general state of need exists among the homeless"



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"Needs" Quotes from Famous Books



... needs is a business man in the executive chair. We are all stockholders in common, yet the ship of state seems adrift, without chart or compass, pilot or captain. In casting about for a governor who would fully meet ...
— Wells Brothers • Andy Adams

... thy hand," cried he, when he had reached the bank. "I must needs own thou art a brave and a sturdy soul and, withal, a good stout stroke with the cudgels. By this and by that, my head hummeth like to a hive of bees on a hot ...
— The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood • Howard Pyle

... clime there is a town, 665 To those that dwell therein well known; Therefore there needs no more be said here, We unto them refer our reader; For brevity is very good, When w' are, or are not, understood. 670 To this town people did repair, On days of market, or of fair, And, to crack'd fiddle, and hoarse tabor, In merriment did drudge and labor. But now ...
— Hudibras • Samuel Butler

... but he who does His will. Lift up your heart in trust, and submit to the will of Him who is in heaven. Honour His name, seek His kingdom. Ask pardon for your own fault, and be careful to pardon him who offends against you. Ask that you may receive what you require for your needs each day, so that you may find strength against temptation, and freedom from impatience and evil desire. If you pray thus, your prayer will be heard; for he who asks in the right way shall receive, and for him who continually knocks shall the gate be ...
— I.N.R.I. - A prisoner's Story of the Cross • Peter Rosegger

... find out the kind of calculations he needs, that he can't get anywhere else. That'll be the kind he ...
— Talents, Incorporated • William Fitzgerald Jenkins


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