necessity

Definition

Examples

For many families, a reliable car is a necessity rather than a luxury.

Word Family

Synonyms

• requirementrequired activity
• essentialanything indispensable
• musta necessary or essential thing

Collocations

• Easy basic necessity
  describing basic necessity (a popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn; an acronym for beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code; no longer in general use)
• Medium economic necessity driving restructuring
  describing economic necessity driving restructuring (of or relating to an economy, the system of production and management of material wealth)
• Hard acted out of sheer fiscal necessity
  to acted out of sheer fiscal necessity, meaning to perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
• Very Hard make a virtue of necessity during austerity
  to create, produce, or cause regarding a virtue of necessity during austerity