verb
- 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"
- Have need of.
- usage: "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"
- Have or feel a need for.
- usage: "always needing friends and money"
- synonyms: need
adjective
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