n. Function: noun
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Synonyms: OBLIGATION 2, charge, commitment, committal, devoir, duty, must, ought, ||right
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Synonyms: REQUIREMENT 1, demand, want
3 opportunity or requirement to employ FF1C; found little need for his rifle FF1E;
Synonyms: demand, occasion, use
Related Words: call, claim, exaction
4 a pressing lack of something essential FF1C; he is in need of food FF1E;
Synonyms: exigency, necessity
Related Words: deficiency, deficit, lack, shortage, want
Contrasted Words: adequacy, enough, sufficiency
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Synonyms: POVERTY 1, destitution, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, neediness, penury, poorness, privation, want