Needs-cost

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    Of necessity or need; necessarily. not-comparable

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needs must

Etymology

From Middle English needis cost, nedes cost, from needes (genitive of need (“need”)) + cost (“means”); synchronically analyzable as a univerbation of needs + cost.

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