Necessary
[n] anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"
[adj] unavoidably determined by prior circumstances; "the necessary consequences of one's actions"
[adj] absolutely essential
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