Well-needed


noun
1.
a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation:
There is no need for you to go there.
2.
a lack of something wanted or deemed necessary:
to fulfill the needs of the assignment.
3.
urgent want, as of something requisite:
He has no need of your charity.
4.
necessity arising from the circumstances of a situation or case:
There is no need to worry.
5.
a situation or time of difficulty; exigency:
to help a friend in need; to be a friend in need.
6.
a condition marked by the lack of something requisite:
the need for leadership.
7.
destitution; extreme poverty:
The family’s need is acute.
verb (used with object)
8.
to have need of; require:
to need money.
verb (used without object)
9.
to be under an obligation (used as an auxiliary, typically in an interrogative or in a negative statement, and followed by infinitive, in certain cases without to; in the 3d person singular the form is need, not needs):
He need not go.
10.
to be in need or want.
11.
to be necessary:
There needs no apology.
Idioms
12.
if need be, should the necessity arise:
If need be, I can type the letters myself.
verb
1.
(transitive) to be in want of: to need money
2.
(transitive) to require or be required of necessity (to be or do something); be obliged: to need to do more work
3.
(takes an infinitive without to) used as an auxiliary in negative and interrogative sentences to express necessity or obligation, and does not add -s when used with he, she, it, and singular nouns: need he go?
4.
(intransitive) (archaic) to be essential or necessary to: there needs no reason for this
noun
5.
the fact or an instance of feeling the lack of something: he has need of a new coat
6.
a requirement: the need for vengeance
7.
necessity or obligation resulting from some situation: no need to be frightened
8.
distress or extremity: a friend in need
9.
extreme poverty or destitution; penury
In addition to the idiom beginning with need

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