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Synonyms for need:


noun want, requirement

commitment
demand
obligation
right
urgency
use
wish
charge
committal
compulsion
desideratum
devoir
duty
essential
exigency
extremity
longing
must
occasion
requisite
weakness
ought

noun poverty

lack
shortage
want
deprivation
destitution
distress
extremity
impecuniousness
impoverishment
inadequacy
indigence
insufficiency
neediness
paucity
pennilessness
penury
poorness
privation

noun emergency; pressing lack

necessity
obligation
shortage
urgency
want
deficiency
exigency
inadequacy
insufficiency

verb want something

demand
desire
lack
require
claim
covet
crave
exact
hanker
hunger
long
lust
miss
necessitate
pine
thirst
wish
yearn

Examples of uses:

I need help. I need a place to stay. I need money and a suit.
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Without the Enterprise, we need food, and we need water, and we need them fast.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
But they need help, they need food and they need people and they need them quickly.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
Well, we need Kate and we need Leo, and we need them now.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
Listen, we need to occupy Ally, get her out of the office while we plan the party, so you need to say you need her.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
There's no need for a conductor, no need for music, no need for nothing!
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
Why do you need so much money? As a matter of fact, I need more.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
We are a necessary evil but they need us as much as we need them.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
The Tok'ra need us right now more than we need them.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
Well, I think we either need to get a little closer or need to warm up.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf

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