Usually means: Requirement essential for survival, functioning.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. need: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. need: Merriam-Webster
  3. need, need: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. need: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. need: Collins English Dictionary
  6. need: Vocabulary.com
  7. Need, need, need, need, need: Wordnik
  8. need: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. need: Wiktionary
  10. need: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. need: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. need: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Need, need: Dictionary.com
  14. need (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. need: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Need (novel series), Need, The Need: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Need: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. need: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. need: Rhymezone
  20. need: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. need: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. NEED: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. need: FreeDictionary.org
  24. need: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. need: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. need: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Need: FACS Journalist's Guide to Economic Terms
  2. need: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Need: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. need: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. need: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. NEED: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. need: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. need: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. need: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable and uncountable) A requirement for something; something needed.
noun:  Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
verb:  (transitive) To have an absolute requirement for.
verb:  (transitive) To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
verb:  (modal, chiefly in the negative) To be obliged or required (to do something).
verb:  (intransitive) To be required; to be necessary.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To be necessary (to someone).

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