Usually means: Essential items for basic survival.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word necessities:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. necessities: Merriam-Webster
  2. necessities: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. necessities: Collins English Dictionary
  4. necessities: Vocabulary.com
  5. Necessities, necessities: Wordnik
  6. necessities: Wiktionary
  7. Necessities, necessities: Dictionary.com
  8. Necessities: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Necessities: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. necessities: FreeDictionary.org
  11. necessities: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. necessities: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. necessities: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. necessities: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. necessities: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. necessities: Idioms

(Note: See necessity as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (necessity)

noun:  The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
noun:  The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack.
noun:  Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
noun:  Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power.
noun:  The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
noun:  (law) Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.
noun:  (law, in the plural) Indispensable requirements (of life).
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