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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
necessitate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
change
▪ The passages and narrow stairs made the effort very difficult, necessitating a change in the arrangements.
use
▪ Both types of transactions necessitate the use of nostro accounts with correspondent banks.
▪ The nature of building work normally necessitates the use of a gang.
▪ This necessitated the use or threat of force or violence by the defendant and resistance by the victim.
▪ The reader will appreciate that in most cases oil field development necessitates the use of external finance.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Sales have dropped dramatically, necessitating cuts in production and employment.
▪ The proposed festival would necessitate closing University Avenue between 14th and 24th Streets Northwest.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both types of transactions necessitate the use of nostro accounts with correspondent banks.
▪ But that was often a complex process, necessitating a lawyer and a lot of time.
▪ Its writing will necessitate an extensive examination of diverse literatures.
▪ Southerners hotly contended that no violence necessitating migration existed; the resolution was not passed.
▪ The higher level of production has, merely, a higher level of want creation necessitating a higher level of want satisfaction.
▪ The how in this case necessitated sub-contracting the exhibition table.
▪ The problems presented to the female child are different problems, necessitating different solutions.
▪ Transferred calls have subsequently been found to have been dropped, necessitating the caller dialling again.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Necessitate

Necessitate \Ne*ces"si*tate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Necessitated; p. pr. & vb. n. Necessitating.] [Cf. L. necessitatus, p. p. of necessitare, and F. n['e]cessiter. See Necessity.]

  1. To make necessary or indispensable; to render unavoidable.

    Sickness [might] necessitate his removal from the court.
    --South.

    This fact necessitates a second line.
    --J. Peile.

  2. To reduce to the necessity of; to force; to compel.

    The Marquis of Newcastle, being pressed on both sides, was necessitated to draw all his army into York.
    --Clarendon.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
necessitate

1620s, from Medieval Latin necessitatus, past participle of necessitare "to render necessary," from Latin necessitas (see necessity). Earlier verb in English was necessen (late 14c.). Related: Necessitated; necessitates; necessitating.

Wiktionary
necessitate

vb. to make necessary; to require (something) to be bring about.

WordNet
necessitate
  1. v. require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulates a patient's consent" [syn: ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand] [ant: obviate]

  2. cause to be a concomitant

Usage examples of "necessitate".

A man hanging at the end of the alpenstock might conceivably swing into the fissure, but h would necessitate a feat of acrobatics far beyond the powers of either himself or Gabula.

UNIVERSAL ORDER is the expression of the purposes of God, not as arbitrarily chosen by his will and capriciously revealed in a book, but as necessitated by his nature and embodied in his works.

The assayer, as a rule, can select his own standard temperature, and may choose one which will always necessitate warming.

The constantly increasing accumulation of pieces of machinery, big brass castings, block tin, casks, crates, and packages of innumerable articles, by their demands for space, necessitated the sacrifice of most of the slighter partitions of the house, and the beams and flooring of the upper chambers were also mercilessly sawn away by the tireless scientist in such a way as to convert them into mere shelves and corner brackets of the atrial space between cellars and rafters.

The close adherence of the tubes and ovaries to the fundus necessitated their removal.

Mokameh Ghat, necessitated by a break of gauge, was done by a Labour Company which held the contract for handling goods throughout the length of the broad-gauge railway.

I guessed the latter circumstance one day when, after I had asked her to tell me her adventures from the age of eleven to that of eighteen, she proceeded to tell me tales, the telling of which necessitated her throwing all modesty to the winds.

If the psychical totality of man consists of states of feeling, modes of volition, and powers of thought, not necessitating any spiritual entity in which they inhere, then, by parity of reasoning, the physical totality of man consists of states of nutrition, modes of absorption, and powers of change, implying no body in which these processes are effectuated!

As Noddy had stipulated there must be four passengers in each car it would necessitate the motor boys getting some one else to ride with them.

Not that she wanted anyone to think she was bright enough even to dream anyone at Peevers Mansion could cause trouble that would necessitate bringing in paid muscle.

For example, the space-relations of the thing seen would have necessitated an entity as a relatum in the place of the thing touched even although certain elements of its character had not been disclosed by touch.

Likewise, the business of taking orders on commission for the purchase and sale of grain and cotton for future delivery not necessitating interstate shipment was ruled not to be interstate commerce, and as such exempt from taxation, although deliveries were sometimes made by interstate shipment.

The various races had made war upon one another for ages, and the three higher types had easily bested the green savages of the water places of the world, but now that the receding seas necessitated constant abandonment of their fortified cities and forced upon them a more or less nomadic life in which they became separated into smaller communities they soon fell prey to the fierce hordes of green men.

Champeuois reports the case of a Sumatra boy of seven, who was injured to such an extent by an explosion as to necessitate the amputation of all his extremities, and, despite his tender age and the extent of his injuries, the boy completely recovered.

To deal even remotely with all that is being said and done against Anarchism would necessitate the writing of a whole volume.