to needs fixing
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2.0
- phrasal verb
- That tractor needs fixing.
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Watch on YouTubeIn my case, there are still so many things that need fixing.
- In my case, there are still so many things that need fixing.
- Remember, he wrote the paper where he said it is of, it is, it is with great interest, the Rutherford atom, meaning it's wrong, it needs fixing.
- Yeah, I think the the question of what if nothing needed fixing?
- And it's, and it's really, it's so sad because we've so many problems that need fixing.
Examples
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There is little doubt that the system needs fixing.
Academic text (2006) -
A lot of things need fixing around here.
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Any relationship that needs fixing, if it gets fixed, it's going to get fixed by you.
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I mean, it needs fixing, though.
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You just show me what needs fixing.
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Yeah, a lot of things around here need fixing.
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And there are lots of things that need fixing in this house.
Fiction book (1996) -
Sometimes all we can see is what's missing, what needs fixing, and what's wrong.
Blog text (29) -
I made up lists of everything that needed fixing: broken planks in the deck, moldy corners in the basement.
Fiction book (1994) -
The old plumbing in my house needs fixing before we can move in.
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'requires repair' is directly and compositionally derived from 'need(s)' (to require) plus 'fixing' (repair), so a learner who knows both words can infer that something requires repair. This verb + gerund/noun construction is a common, cross-linguistic pattern in English and should be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Needs fixing paints a simple picture: something is broken and needs someone to do the fixing. So when we say something 'needs repair or improvement', we mean it must be fixed.