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(inescapable) adjective
avoidless, certain, choiceless, compelling, constraining, decided, decreed, designated, destined, expected, fated, fateful, fixed, foreordained, imminent, impending, ineluctable, includible, inevitable, inexorable, irresistible, irrevocable, ordained, sealed, settled, sure, unalterable, unavoidable, uncontrollable, undeniable, unevasible, unpreventable
associated concepts: necessary damages, necessary expenses, necessary implication, necessary inference, necessary injury
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(required) adjective
all-important, basic, binding, bounden, chief, coercive, compelling, compulsory, critical, crucial, demanded, dictated, essential, exigent, expedient, fundamental, imperative, important, imposed, incumbent, indispensable, integral, key, mandatory, necessitated, necessitous, needed, obligatory, paramount, prerequisite, prescribed, prime, principal, requisite, requisitioned, significant, strategic, strategical, substantive, urgent, vital
associated concepts: necessary parties
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noun
essence, essential, essentiality, indispensable thing, necessitas, necessities, necessitousness, necessitude, necessity, need, prerequirement, prerequisite, qualification, requirement, requisite, vitals
associated concepts: duty to provide necessaries, necessaries of life
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binding, cardinal (basic), central (essential), compelling, compulsory, desideratum, essential (required), exigent, fundamental, imperative, important (urgent), indispensable, integral, mandatory, material (important), need (requirement), obligatory, peremptory (imperative), primary, requisite, unavoidable (inevitable), urgent
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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adj.Required; needed; essential.
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008.
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adj., adv.1) essential.2) less forcefully, it can mean convenient, useful or making good sense.
Law dictionary. EdwART. 2013.
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necessary — ne|ces|sa|ry1 W1S1 [ˈnesısəri US seri] adj [Date: 1300 1400; : Latin; Origin: necessarius, from necesse necessary , from ne not + cedere to give up ] 1.) something that is necessary is what you need to have or need to do →↑essential ▪ The booklet … Dictionary of contemporary English
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