What is the meaning of necessary?

noun

  • Anything indispensable.
    • usage: "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"

adjective

  • Absolutely essential.
  • Unavoidably determined by prior circumstances.
    • usage: "the necessary consequences of one's actions"
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