What is the meaning of necessitate?

Require as useful, just, or proper.
- usage: "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
- synonyms: ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand
Cause to be a concomitant. .

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