Definition of need

• n. - A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.
• n. - Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
• n. - That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business.
• n. - Situation of need; peril; danger.
• n. - To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.
• v. i. - To be wanted; to be necessary.
• adv. - Of necessity. See Needs.