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“necessitate”
necessitate (verb), necessitates; necessitated; necessitating
1. To be absolutely needed or to be required: A new safety regulation necessitated adding a railing to the stairways at all levels of the building.
Jack, his family, and extra guests, necessitated taking two cars to go shopping together.
2. Etymology: from Latin necessitatus, from necessitare, "to compel".
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