necessitate
verb /nəˈsesɪteɪt/
/nəˈsesɪteɪt/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they necessitate | /nəˈsesɪteɪt/ /nəˈsesɪteɪt/ |
| he / she / it necessitates | /nəˈsesɪteɪts/ /nəˈsesɪteɪts/ |
| past simple necessitated | /nəˈsesɪteɪtɪd/ /nəˈsesɪteɪtɪd/ |
| past participle necessitated | /nəˈsesɪteɪtɪd/ /nəˈsesɪteɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form necessitating | /nəˈsesɪteɪtɪŋ/ /nəˈsesɪteɪtɪŋ/ |
- to make something necessary
- necessitate something Recent financial scandals have necessitated changes in parliamentary procedures.
- necessitate doing something Increased traffic necessitated widening the road.
- necessitate somebody/something doing something His new job necessitated him/his getting up at six.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryNecessitate is used with these nouns as the object:- removal
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from medieval Latin necessitat- ‘compelled’, from the verb necessitare, based on Latin necesse ‘be needful’.