noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the bare essentials/necessities
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Her bag was light, packed with only the bare essentials.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
absolute
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This is an absolute necessity and to work in defiance of it means total failure.
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White gloves and a pillbox hat were absolute necessities .
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Design, development and management have in common the absolute necessity of taking action based on incomplete information.
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Artificial light is an absolute necessity for the developments of plants.
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There are two infestations that are commonly transmitted in this way although there is no absolute necessity for this mode of transmission.
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Careful searching of the literature is an absolute necessity in the preparation of any study and solution to problems.
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Supplies of liquid helium are an absolute necessity in many modern science laboratories.
bare
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Although many people in Esarn are poor, most have the bare necessities .
basic
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Food is the basic necessity of life and without it economic progress is impossible.
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Rearing a child to maturity requires large expenditures on the basic necessities of life.
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For the first time, in many cases, working people were able to purchase more than basic necessities .
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Even basic necessities , such as pencils and paper, were often completely lacking.
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If a charge is made to some one on income support, this reduces the income available to pay for basic necessities .
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Ultimately a growing population of families unable to meet the basic necessities of life invites uncontainable crime and disease.
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They were starved of food and basic necessities .
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It led all the others, being both a producer of basic necessities and a provider of luxuries.
economic
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In the longer term, that particular barrier is likely to disappear through sheer economic necessity on the part of business.
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The school board claimed the dis-missals were required by economic necessity .
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It was not only a personal benefit, but a social and economic necessity .
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Most women are forced through economic necessity to work in part-time low-paid jobs with quite a large number in the black economy.
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Educational developments often occur in the wake of economic necessity .
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When it's forced upon you by economic necessity it can become a grim affair.
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Stalking stags is turned into a sport as an economic necessity as much as anything else.
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Marriage was essential for the young working-class girl, indeed an economic necessity , for she could scarcely have survived unmarried.
medical
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The exceptions would be driving for school, work, or medical or family necessities .
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Exceptions include work, school, medical and family necessities .
military
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In lieu of a policy, most political decisions were dictated by military necessity .
other
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Supplies of milk, meat and other necessities are running low.
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Records of clothing and the other necessities and niceties of life are scanty.
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On August 27 they awoke to find that food had gone on ration, as had petrol and many other necessities .
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So it was with many others, selling implements, rope and all the other necessities needed by the farming community.
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His other necessity in life was solitude.
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He needed to do some shopping for cleaning materials and other basic necessities and decided to go.
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My grant covered the school fees only, and no provision was made for other necessities .
political
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Realizing this, Franco stepped up his arguments in favour of a slow campaign, justifying it as a political necessity .
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For a long time she maintained her maiden name until it became a public and political necessity to adopt the surname Clinton.
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It was an economic and political necessity .
practical
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So international agreement and co-operation is in this field not merely an ideal but a practical necessity for effective justice.
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The need for reliability is not only ethically desirable, it is generally a practical necessity .
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Certainly marriage was very much a practical necessity for working class girls, and the chief hope was for a good bargain.
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Indeed, for many municipalities a concern with cost containment and with stimulating private investment became a practical necessity .
social
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It was not only a personal benefit, but a social and economic necessity .
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That was a ritualized occasion of the greatest social necessity .
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He defends the city as a human and social necessity .
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It's a sort of social necessity .
urgent
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Policies which address such issues are an urgent necessity .
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Plans, in fact, had become an urgent necessity .
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The future demands for knowledge on this subject means more research is a real and urgent necessity .
■ VERB
accept
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The five had always perhaps accepted the necessity of compromise.
avoid
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Such a scheme is simpler as it avoids the necessity for a reduction of share capital.
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They avoided the necessity of computing the restricted model by estimating the unrestricted model and testing the restrictions using the Wald test.
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It may incorporate a shock-absorbing layer, avoiding the necessity of a mid-sole.
become
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Absolute poverty has fallen steadily since the industrial revolution, which is why yesterday's luxuries have become today's necessities .
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Early reunification, in short, has become a necessity for the world Trotskyist movement.
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At universities, where professors of medicine taught botany, physic gardens became a necessity for the practical study of plants.
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In fact, being able to make quick decisions about a whole host of issues becomes a necessity .
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The check had become a matter of necessity rather than of choice.
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Plans, in fact, had become an urgent necessity .
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Suddenly intelligent rock journalism became a necessity .
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Educational investments become a defensive necessity .
provide
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Although there is never a clean slate on which to start planning, the new start provides the necessity for such planning.
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This may seem to provide the basis for necessity .
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He provided for us the necessities of life - food, shelter, clothing.
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They are consciously trying to redesign a new system for providing many of the necessities of life.
understand
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She would at once understand the motive and, however coldly she dealt with me, she would understand the necessity .
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Pope thus summarized one possible eighteenth-century understanding of necessity .
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The first step is to understand the necessity and scope of the choice that has to be made.
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Many of them have come to understand both the necessity and the complexity of bringing various groups together.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
make a virtue of necessity
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But Simon does not merely make a virtue of necessity.
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But since response from ministers by the 1840s was extremely circumspect the reformers were probably making a virtue of necessity.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A car is an absolute necessity in this town.
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Even basic necessities such as pencils and paper were lacking in the school.
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For several years, the family was forced to make do with just the bare necessities.
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I would say that TV has become more a necessity than a luxury, wouldn't you?
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The decision to sell the car was fueled by necessity .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A list made beforehand and ticked off should obviate the necessity for this though.
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Economic necessity or opportunity often forces them to make decisions that favor a particular constituency over its counterparts.
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In the longer term, that particular barrier is likely to disappear through sheer economic necessity on the part of business.
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It will itself exist of necessity , and it will necessarily contain all possibilities in itself.
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Of necessity two different ways of measuring the same thing must come to the same conclusion.
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Protests were countered by claims of the objective necessity of maintaining financial security.
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The court held that necessity was a defence to the claim in trespass and nuisance.
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Ultimately a growing population of families unable to meet the basic necessities of life invites uncontainable crime and disease.