Usually means: Make something necessary or required.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word necessitate:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. necessitate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. necessitate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. necessitate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. necessitate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. necessitate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Necessitate, necessitate: Wordnik
  7. necessitate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. necessitate: Wiktionary
  9. necessitate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. necessitate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. necessitate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Necessitate, necessitate: Dictionary.com
  13. necessitate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Necessitate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. necessitate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. necessitate: Rhymezone
  17. necessitate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. necessitate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. necessitate: Free Dictionary
  20. necessitate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. necessitate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. necessitate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. necessitate: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To make necessary; to behove; to require (something) to be brought about.
verb:  (of circumstances) To force into a certain course of action; compel.

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