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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
necessary/ˈnesəsəri/
▶adjective
- 1 required to be done, achieved, or present; needed.
- 2 inevitable: a necessary consequence.
■ Philosophy inevitably resulting from the nature of things, so that the contrary is impossible.
■ Philosophy (of an agent) having no independent volition.
- 1 (necessaries) the basic requirements of life, such as food and warmth.
- 2 (the necessary) informal the action or item needed.
■ Brit. informal the money required.
– origin ME: from L. necessarius, from necesse ‘be needful’.
'necessary' also found in these Oxford entries:
Anglican chant
- automatic
- cable
- call
- capable
- care
- chicken
- clear
- coenzyme
- coercivity
- comme il faut
- compact
- competent
- complete
- compress
- cost
- desirable
- dose
- drawn-out
- elective
- enough
- essential
- estovers
- excess
- excessive
- face
- fit
- forfeit
- generous
- get
- hamper
- house
- if
- ill-equipped
- illiterate
- imperative
- imperfect
- incumbent
- indicate
- indispensable
- inessential
- integral
- involve
- jump
- lifeblood
- logic
- making
- metabolite
- mutatis mutandis
- mutualism
Forum discussions with the word(s) "necessary" in the title:
"..necessary to" and "..subject to", what's the difference?
"'necessary versus important" implications
"If you have any further questions": is the "any" necessary?
"Unless necessary" How to pharaphrase
"we can't afford to make perfect the enemy of the absolutely necessary"
A complete physical exam is necessary
a good dictionary is indispensable//a must//necessary
A guide is necessary
all required/necessary documents
along with all the elements necessary...
an occasion that most Chinese find 'it' hard to ignore. [Necessary?]
And that is the timeframe science suggests is necessary...
Are commas necessary
arrow introduces 'each' subsense [necessary?]
as necessary/needed
Balk 'at' [necessary?]
buy necessary things
by not studying enough and 'by' spending too much time [repetition necessary?]
change necessary or necessary change?
Comma necessary or advised? (Or even incorrect?!)
comma necessary or no
consider necessary
cosider [ consider ] necessary/consider needed
Deemed Necessary together
Grammar--dummy it--I think it necessary...
had myocardial fibrosis, but <not> сardiomyocyte [necessary?]
have <a?> family of 6 [necessary?]
I <would, could, should> have arrived earlier but I didn't think it was necessary.
I'm fine, thank you. 'And you?' [Necessary?]
if you do the necessary things
more...
"'necessary versus important" implications
"If you have any further questions": is the "any" necessary?
"Unless necessary" How to pharaphrase
"we can't afford to make perfect the enemy of the absolutely necessary"
A complete physical exam is necessary
a good dictionary is indispensable//a must//necessary
A guide is necessary
all required/necessary documents
along with all the elements necessary...
an occasion that most Chinese find 'it' hard to ignore. [Necessary?]
And that is the timeframe science suggests is necessary...
Are commas necessary
arrow introduces 'each' subsense [necessary?]
as necessary/needed
Balk 'at' [necessary?]
buy necessary things
by not studying enough and 'by' spending too much time [repetition necessary?]
change necessary or necessary change?
Comma necessary or advised? (Or even incorrect?!)
comma necessary or no
consider necessary
cosider [ consider ] necessary/consider needed
Deemed Necessary together
Grammar--dummy it--I think it necessary...
had myocardial fibrosis, but <not> сardiomyocyte [necessary?]
have <a?> family of 6 [necessary?]
I <would, could, should> have arrived earlier but I didn't think it was necessary.
I'm fine, thank you. 'And you?' [Necessary?]
if you do the necessary things
more...
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