Thesaurus: need

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1. n. A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.
2. n. Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
3. n. That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business.
4. n. Situation of need; peril; danger.
5. n. To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.
6. v. i. To be wanted; to be necessary.
7. adv. Of necessity. See Needs.
8. n. a condition requiring relief
9. n. anything that is necessary but lacking
10. n. 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
11. n. a state of extreme poverty or destitution
12. v. require as useful, just, or proper