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need

[need] / nid /






Usage

What are other ways to say need? The verb need often suggests urgency, stressing the necessity of supplying what is lacking: to need an operation, better food, a match to light the fire. Require, which expresses necessity as strongly as need, occurs most frequently in serious or formal contexts: Your presence at the hearing is required. Successful experimentation requires careful attention to detail. Lack means to be without or to have less than a desirable quantity of something: to lack courage, sufficient money, enough members to make a quorum. 

Example Sentences

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The charity said rising energy costs and poverty remained serious issues which "need addressing", adding these issues affected "far more people" in the community than figures suggested.

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The government is due to publish its proposals for schools in a white paper on Monday, and Milburn says it needs to make sure the curriculum is aligned with what employers need.

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"There are no care pathways, there are no specialist services, health boards across Scotland have no idea how many patients are in their area or what their needs are."

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She added: "Our Schools White Paper presents the blueprint for opportunity for the next generation, with an education system that truly serves every child, whatever their needs and wherever in the country they grow up."

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The Liberal Democrats said the situation is "appalling" and the whole system needs to be "rethought".

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