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necessary [ nec·e·ssa·ry ]
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1. Needed to be done, achieved, or present; essential.
it's not necessary for you to be here
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2. Determined, existing, or happening by natural laws or predestination; inevitable.
It was an almost necessary consequence of using lenses.
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3. (of a concept, statement, etc.) inevitably resulting from the nature of things, so that the contrary is impossible.
There could be no solution, they claimed, until the mind first grasped the necessary idea.
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4. (of an agent) having no independent volition.
The sixth is that if a man were not a necessary agent he would be ignorant of morality and have no motive to practice it.
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1. The basic requirements of life, such as food and warmth.
poor people complaining for want of the necessaries of life
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2. (the necessary) The action or item needed.
As I empathised with the poor guy, I obliged him by doing the necessary.
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3. (the necessary) The money needed.
a bag containing my wallet: the money, the necessary
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1. Late Middle English from Latin necessarius, from necesse ‘be needful’.
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