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.

8. to have need of; require: to need money.

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.

12. should the necessity arise: If need be, I can type the letters myself.

1. to be in want of
2. to require or be required of necessity (to be or do something); be obliged
3. 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
4. to be essential or necessary to

5. the fact or an instance of feeling the lack of something
6. a requirement
7. necessity or obligation resulting from some situation
8. distress or extremity
9. extreme poverty or destitution; penury

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