necessitateverb [ T ]
uk/nəˈses.ɪ.teɪt/us/nəˈses.ə.teɪt/formalto cause something to be needed, or to make something necessary:
Reduction in government spending will necessitate further cuts in public services.
[ + -ing verb ] An important meeting necessitates my being in Boston on Friday.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Essential or necessary
- a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do idiom
- basically
- basis
- be a question of doing sth idiom
- business-critical
- dependence
- if/when push comes to shove idiom
- imply
- incumbent
- indispensable
- inherent
- integral
- needed
- needful
- occasion
- on a need-to-know basis idiom
- owe
- owe it to yourself idiom
- underlying
- warrant
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