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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
necessary
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a necessary evil (=something that is bad but necessary)
▪ Most businesses see government regulation as a necessary evil.
a necessary measure
▪ The army will take all necessary measures to protect the public.
a necessary precaution
▪ He justified his secrecy as a necessary precaution.
consider it necessary/important etc to do sth
▪ I did not consider it necessary to report the incident.
deem sth necessary/appropriate etc
▪ They were told to take whatever action they deemed necessary.
essential/necessary/vital equipment
▪ A compass is essential equipment when hiking.
if necessary
▪ Taste the soup and add salt and pepper if necessary.
necessary steps
▪ We must be sure that we are taking the necessary steps to prevent the problem from getting a foothold here.
necessary/essential repairs
▪ The Council has agreed to carry out essential repairs to the fencing.
the necessary information
▪ This leaflet should provide you with all the necessary information.
the required/necessary minimum (=the least amount that you must have)
▪ He received 35 votes, two more than the required minimum.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
absolutely
▪ It is absolutely necessary to allow sponsors into the game.
▪ This is not absolutely necessary but it would stretch your imagination and further clarify the entire research process from beginning to end.
▪ But he is not an absolutely necessary member of your cast of characters.
▪ On the other hand, honesty is an absolutely necessary policy as a matter of principle and also credibility.
▪ He wouldn't keep her here any longer than was absolutely necessary, would he?
▪ All the components of the Pythagorean model interlock, each absolutely necessary to the proper operation of the whole.
▪ For one who has a strenuous life it is necessary, absolutely necessary in order to keep sane and well.
▪ My handwriting is so bad now that a computer is absolutely necessary for me.
also
▪ But it is also necessary to know music-making from the orchestra's point of view.
▪ Free trade among manufacturers, suppliers, towns, and cities is also necessary.
▪ It is also necessary for the plaintiff to prove causation.
▪ A certain minimum material infrastructure Is also necessary.
▪ When dealing with leasehold property, it is also necessary to deal with the apportionments of any service charge liability.
▪ It is also necessary to make the vital decision how the structure should be manned.
▪ Similarly large investments are also necessary in electricity generation.
▪ It was also necessary to provide complementary training for the professional members of the social service teams.
as
▪ Once the fire is lit, it has to be kept going and refuelled as necessary.
▪ Fire would have been as necessary to the one as to the other.
▪ A teacher who has visually handicapped pupils in the class will need to consider these recommendations and implement them as necessary.
▪ Replenish coals and chips as necessary.
▪ Legal representation was not viewed as necessary, but rules prohibiting legal representation were considered undesirable.
▪ Make sure patties are just barely covered and add water as necessary to replace sauce that has cooked down.
▪ With small arrangements, make sure you check the water level frequently and top up as necessary.
▪ Therefore, a balance between assimilation and accommodation is as necessary as the processes themselves.
really
▪ You may well ask if such precision is really necessary!
▪ But no coaching is really necessary in such matters.
▪ Photographs Are these really necessary and do all the sections of the list need to have them?
▪ The first step is to determine whether buttering up is really necessary.
▪ Are status and status symbols really necessary?
▪ Is it really necessary that we learn everything by trial by fire?
▪ Is the placement outside the birth family really necessary?
▪ Is it really necessary for me to get under the bed and shine a light like this?
when
▪ They must make physical, musical and, when necessary, dramatic sense.
▪ Proponents argue that when necessary, Congress would waive the provision of this amendment with a three-fifths vote.
▪ They had always had the potential to control their fertility and did so when necessary.
▪ In this way the record can be found when necessary without movement of the access heads.
▪ One has to match the two and use active and passive immunisation when necessary.
▪ Peasants were also able to cushion the impact of indirect taxes by falling back on barter and home products when necessary.
▪ It helps them to find their centre of balance when working close together and also to counter-balance their weight when necessary.
▪ Then if we begin to make car payments to ourselves, we can replace that car when necessary.
where
▪ To participate and where necessary assist in the training activities of the Department.
▪ In others, the general hospital psychiatric service will be able to provide aftercare, including where necessary, family therapy.
▪ For the deaf, welfare officers had to provide a communication and translation service where necessary.
▪ We try to give constructive and detailed responses to the proposals and engage the assistance of specialists in the field where necessary.
▪ The method of assessment will rest on observing the trainee's performance at work with questions supplementing underpinning knowledge where necessary.
▪ Revise your roles in marriage where necessary or helpful.
▪ The principal methods of investigation are the collection and analysis of secondary data, complemented by personal interviews, where necessary.
■ NOUN
condition
▪ While this is an optimistic view the necessary conditions of teaching and length of time are not often available.
▪ This is quite true, given the existence of some very important necessary conditions.
▪ Massive investment in research and new technology is, therefore, a necessary condition of achieving sustainable development.
▪ Consensus has to be a necessary condition of partnership.
▪ Enlightened self-interest is, for those of us who are not saints, the necessary condition of social behaviour.
▪ However, these are not attributes of an individual as such, which for fairness might be viewed as a necessary condition.
▪ A strong local business base is a necessary condition for the economic future of Glasgow.
▪ A large number of organisms and lowered resistance are two of the necessary conditions for infection to become established.
evil
▪ They viewed such methods as a necessary evil, unavoidable yet somehow beneath their dignity.
▪ However, the authors, like most others then and now, saw those shortcomings as a necessary evil in maintaining control.
▪ Mr Waldegrave's shambolic performance in the press conference was a necessary evil.
▪ Lawyers are a necessary evil that I try to use as little as possible due to their cost.
▪ They're a necessary evil, like the woman who sawed off all my lovely hair.
▪ It may be a necessary evil, but it is surely an evil.
▪ Most farmers accept the cull as heartbreaking, but a necessary evil.
▪ We do not look at government as a necessary evil.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Computers are as necessary as textbooks in schools.
▪ Fats in our diet are necessary for both heat and energy.
▪ He produced the necessary documents and handed them to her.
▪ If necessary, we will have to employ some outside people to finish the job.
▪ It will be necessary to close the pool while the repairs take place.
▪ The doctor says it may be necessary for me to have an operation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Add a second layer if necessary.
▪ But take another step back and it is no longer necessary to preserve the species.
▪ Jennie told Katharine to be aware of this and to correct any fault as necessary.
▪ Much doubling, therefore, is necessary in the tutti.
▪ On his eighteenth birthday, his parents had believed it necessary to commit the act that would decisively save their only child.
▪ She explained why change was necessary.
▪ They also make any necessary criticisms and suggestions more easily acceptable when they are offered.
▪ This was clearly necessary for their analysis since it allowed them to aggregate data over different drivers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Necessary

Necessary \Nec"es*sa*ry\, n.; pl. Necessaries.

  1. A thing that is necessary or indispensable to some purpose; something that one can not do without; a requisite; an essential; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the necessaries of life.

  2. A privy; a water-closet.

  3. pl. (Law) Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and married women, as are requisite for support suitable to station.

Necessary

Necessary \Nec"es*sa*ry\, a. [L. necessarius, from necesse unavoidable, necessary; of uncertain origin: cf. F. n['e]cessaire.]

  1. Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.

    Death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
    --Shak.

  2. Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with, without preventing the attainment of a desired result; indispensable; requisite; essential. ``'T is necessary he should die.''
    --Shak.

    A certain kind of temper is necessary to the pleasure and quiet of our minds.
    --Tillotson.

  3. Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; -- opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
necessary

late 14c. "needed, required, essential, indispensable," from Old French necessaire "necessary, urgent, compelling" (13c.), and directly from Latin necessarius "unavoidable, indispensable, necessary," from necesse "unavoidable, indispensable," originally "no backing away," from ne- "not" + cedere "to withdraw, go away, yield" (see cede). The root sense is of that from which there is no evasion, that which is inevitable. Necessary house "privy" is from c.1600. Necessary evil is from 1540s (the original reference was to "woman").

necessary

mid-14c., "needed, required, or useful things; the necessities of life; actions determined by right or law," perhaps from Old French necessaire (n.) "private parts, genitalia; lavatory," and directly from Latin necessarius (n.), in classical Latin "a relation, relative, kinsman; friend, client, patron;" see necessary (adj.).

Wiktionary
necessary

a. 1 needed, required 2 Such as must be; not to be avoided; inevitable. 3 Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary. n. (context archaic British English) bathroom, toilet, loo

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WordNet
necessary

  1. adj. absolutely essential [ant: unnecessary]

  2. unavoidably determined by prior circumstances; "the necessary consequences of one's actions"

  3. 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" [syn: necessity, essential, requirement, requisite] [ant: inessential]

Wikipedia
Necessary

Necessary or necessity may refer to:

  • Need
    • An action somebody may feel they must do
    • An important task or essential thing to do at a particular time or by a particular moment
  • Necessary and sufficient condition, in logic, something that is a required condition for something else to be the case
  • Necessary truth, in logic, something that cannot fail to be true
  • Necessity, in criminal law
  • A bathroom or toilet, in some languages (in English this is an archaic usage)
  • An economic need enunciated by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1944 Second Bill of Rights
  • A necessity in contract law
  • Necessary Records, UK record label
Necessary (song)

"Necessary" is a song by the Japanese J-pop group Every Little Thing, released as their tenth single on September 30, 1998.

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Usage examples of "necessary".

That during the existing insurrection, and as a necessary measure for suppressing the same, all rebels and insurgents, their aiders and abettors within the United States, and all persons discouraging volunteer enlistments, resisting militia drafts, or guilty of any disloyal practice affording aid and comfort to rebels against the authority of the United States, shall be subject to martial law, and liable to trial and punishment by courts-martial or military commissions.

Its principle was the abnegation of selfishness by strictly limiting the expenditure of every member to the amount really necessary to his comfort, dedicating the rest to humanity.

On top of that, every vessel he took had a quantity of money aboard, the funds necessary to purchase fresh stores and to pay for emergency repairs.

But no human being loved the aborigines more, nor stood ready to lay down her life for them if it were necessary.

Soul towards the higher, the agent, and except in so far as the conjunction is absolutely necessary, to sever the agent from the instrument, the body, so that it need not forever have its Act upon or through this inferior.

Spirit, with each node in the continuum of being, each link in the chain, being absolutely necessary and intrinsically valuable.

But more evidence is necessary before we fully admit that the glands of this saxifrage can absorb, even with ample time allowed, animal matter from the minute insects which they occasionally and accidentally capture.

The core is placed upon the end of the ridge abutting upon the inside of the loop, and so the imaginary line crosses no looping ridge, which is necessary.

If it was just her arm, then Abies with his military background could treat her for days if necessary.

If, in adopting the Constitution, nothing was done but acceding to a compact, nothing would seem necessary, in order to break it up, but to secede from the same compact.

When the lead in the assay has been separated as sulphate and dissolved in sodic acetate, less chromate is apparently required, and in this case it will be necessary to precipitate the lead in the standard with an equivalent of sodic sulphate and redissolve in sodic acetate just as in the assay.

It is not easy, however, to induce a child to use an Acousticon at all times, whereas an adult will take the time and trouble necessary to become accustomed to the instrument, and will put up with the slight inconveniences inseparable from its use.

Here, reader, it may be necessary to acquaint thee with some matters, which, if thou dost know already, thou art wiser than I take thee to be.

My answers were rather obscure in such matters as I was not specially acquainted with, but they were very clear concerning her disease, and my oracle became precious and necessary to her highness.

Never was an actress found who could replace her, and to find one it would be necessary that she should unite in herself all the perfections which Silvia possessed for the difficult profession of the stage: action, voice, intelligence, wit, countenance, manners, and a deep knowledge of the human heart.