to necessitate

Examples

• All

• [Announcer] Ladies and gentlemen, mechanical difficulties necessitate our asking all passengers to kindly deplane and return temporarily to the boarding area.

  Into the Night (1985)

• Will necessitate some employee downsizing.

  Ri¢hie Ri¢h (1994)

• Several developments in society, education, and the arts necessitate change in the music program.

  Academic text (1999)

• It would necessitate getting him out of bed, of course.

  The Rum Diary (2011)

• But a winning strategy sometimes necessitates sacrifice.

  Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

• A couple of other minor incidents necessitated a career change.

  Stuck on You! (1982)

• There's also an adequate social support, which necessitates more hospital use by the less healthy poor.

• China's leadership is fully aware that free market economic reform necessitates a more open, less-repressive society.

  Academic text (1999)

• During this period, the discovery of three burials necessitated one additional week of fieldwork in December.

  Academic text (1990)

• Frequent DCC staff changes necessitate continuous education on preventative actions that decrease diarrheal illness.

  Academic text (2008)

Synonyms

N

to need

vsto necessitate

∞ 1.0

To require something because it is important

focuses on causing necessity as a result rather than stating a general requirement

T

to take

vsto necessitate

∞ 1.0

Need a certain amount of time or space

makes something necessary because it follows from an action or result

R

to require

vsto necessitate

∞ 1.1

Need something because a rule or situation makes it necessary

creates necessity as a consequence rather than stating a rule-based need

C

to call for

vsto necessitate

359 3.2

Need something because the situation makes it necessary

specifies necessity arising from being a consequence rather than situational demand

D

to demand

vsto necessitate

311 2.1

To need something because a job or situation must have it

means necessity as a consequence, not the act of insisting or claiming it

C

to compel

vsto necessitate

258 4.8

Force someone to do something or make them feel they must

describes creating necessity because of consequence rather than by forcing action

M

to mandate

vsto necessitate

• Formal

169 4.9

To officially require someone to do something

centres on result-based necessity rather than formal official requirement

O

to obligate

vsto necessitate

• Formal

89 6.7

Make someone legally or morally have to do something

does not imply legal or moral binding, only that something becomes necessary

E

to entail

vsto necessitate

82 4.8

To involve something as a necessary part

makes something necessary as a direct result rather than just involving it

O

to oblige

vsto necessitate

• Formal

72 4.5

To make someone do something because the law or rules say so

focuses on causing necessity as an outcome, not on compelling people

P

to presuppose

vsto necessitate

14 8.3

Assume something to be true before you can say or do something

creates necessity as an outcome, not as a prior assumed condition

Antonyms

O

to obviate

• Formal

5 9.1

Prevent a problem or need by acting before it happens

How Necessary

to compel

258 4.8

to necessitate

• Formal

24 6.3

to require

∞ 1.1

to permit

531 1.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology