| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. Something indispensable: condition, essential, necessity, need, precondition, prerequisite, requirement, requisite, sine qua non. See NECESSARY. 2. An act or course of action that is demanded of one, as by position, custom, law, or religion: burden1, charge, commitment, duty, imperative, need, obligation, responsibility. See OBLIGATION. | | VERB: | To be required or compelled to do: need. Idioms: have got to, have to, must needs. See NECESSARY.
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