1. Necessary for relief or supply
   "provided them with all things needed";
   - needful, required, requisite

1. Have a requirement for
   "This piano needs the attention of a competent tuner";
   - want, require
    
2. Make essential as a condition or prerequisite
   "This job needs a lot of patience and skill";
   - necessitate, ask, postulate, require, take, involve, call for, demand
    
3. Have or feel a need for
   "always needing friends and money"

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See also: necessary

Type of: be, bear on, concern, exist, have to do with, pertain, refer, relate, touch, touch on

Encyclopedia: Needed