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needs-cost

needs-cost adverb: of necessity or need; necessarily.

Adverb

needs-cost (not comparable)

  1. Of necessity or need; necessarily.
    Synonyms:
    needs must

Synonyms of needs-cost

Origin of needs-cost

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

Questions about needs-cost

What does needs-cost mean?
Needs-cost means of necessity or need; necessarily.
What part of speech is needs-cost?
Needs-cost is an adverb.

Words near needs-cost in the dictionary

  1. needs one's bumps felt
  2. needs one's eyes checked
  3. needs one's head examined
  4. needs to
  5. needs-blind
  6. needs-cost
  7. Needses
  8. needsly
  9. needsome
  10. needst
  11. needta

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