be a question of doing sth
C1 to be necessary to do a particular thing:
It's simply/just a question of working hard for a month and then you can relax.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Essential or necessary
- a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do idiom
- basically
- basis
- business-critical
- dependence
- essential
- imply
- incumbent
- indispensable
- inherent
- integral
- interdependent
- needed
- needful
- occasion
- on a need-to-know basis idiom
- owe
- owe it to yourself idiom
- underlying
- warrant
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