(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
(2) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
(3) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
(4) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(5) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
(6) That means deciding what job they’d like to have and outlining the steps they’ll need to take to achieve it.
(7) The obvious need for highly effective contraception in women with existing disorders of glucose metabolism has led to a search for oral contraceptive (OC) regimens for such women that are efficient but without unacceptable metabolic side effects.
(8) More research and a national policy to provide optimal nutrition for all pregnant women, including the adolescent, are needed.
(9) "Britain needs to be in the room when the euro countries meet," he said, "so that it can influence the argument and ensure that what the 17 do will not damage the market or British interests.
(10) It is suggested that the results indicate the need for full haematological screening of all patients with recurrent aphthae.
(11) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
(12) Elderly women need to follow the same strategies as postmenopausal women with more emphasis on prevention of falls.
(13) The problem of treatment oneside malocclusions of adult patients needs to concern of anchorange.
(14) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
(15) Most patients of the bopindolol-group needed 1 mg once daily as compared to those on the nifedipine who required 20 mg b.i.d.
(16) But that's just it - they need to be viable in the long term.
(17) However, further improvement of culture systems is needed for active replication of HBV in vitro.
(18) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
(19) These deficiencies in the data compromise HIV surveillance based on diagnostic testing, and supplementary bias-free data are needed.
(20) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
Needless
Definition:
(a.) Having no need.
(a.) Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses.
(a.) Without sufficient cause; groundless; cuseless.
Example Sentences:
(1) Late-night hosts blast Trumpcare: 'Needless suffering for low and middle-income people' Read more In the Harvard study, the researchers had 9,000 people in their dataset – enough that they were able to ensure they were really measuring the impact of a lack of health insurance.
(2) Needless to say, the place is now awash in self-flagellation.
(3) Above all, MPs should vote to stop needless misery for families afflicted by this rare but terrible disorder.
(4) Acknowledging that such needless expense is meat and drink to enemies of the European idea, MEPs led by the parliament's vice-president, Edward McMillan-Scott, have launched a "Single Seat" campaign to abandon "Alcatraz", as the Strasbourg building is known to some of its inmates.
(5) Its chief executive, Andy Cole, warned: "The lives of England's sickest babies are at risk by needless cuts to the neonatal nursing workforce."
(6) It permits use of both feet to operate surgical modalities, decreases microscope positioning time, and decreases needless hand movements.
(7) Shelvey had been told before the game by his manager to “wise up” against needless bookings.
(8) Cameroon midfielder Alex Song was sent off before half-time for a needless elbow in the back of Croatia's Mario Mandzukic near the halfway line, leaving his side to battle with 10 men for the majority of the game.
(9) Needless pain and anxiety can therefore be avoided for many AML patients.
(10) Needlessly high doses are bound to cause avoidable unwanted effects in a proportion of patients.
(11) Needless to say, BoKlok's brains have grappled with the conundrum.
(12) Millions of British will pay a higher price – the needless squandering of their lives.
(13) In some cases these errors led to needless radiotherapy and to an unnecessarily poor prognosis being given.
(14) This clause has given developers a much freer licence to force their plans through the system regardless of constraints, on the basis that local planning policies represent needless “burdens” on their pockets.
(15) 4.32pm BST Summary Here's a summary of what the president said: • The shutdown hurt the economy and families in a needless "self-inflicted crisis."
(16) A union spokesman said: "Unite has made recommendations to Ineos as way to save jobs and prevent needless harm to this plant and the local community.
(17) Just look at the needless intermediary company created by Dmitry Firtash in 2004 to buy gas from Russia and sell it to Ukraine, making more than $600m a year.
(18) Use of this technic will spare some patients needless radical procedures and should improve long-term cure rates by identifying those patients with truly localized disease for curative resections.
(19) If Moyes felt reprieved when Andros Townsend cut inside and curled a late shot wide, his afternoon was ruined when Paddy McNair needlessly conceded a free-kick, taken near the corner flag by Lee Chung-yong and, deep into stoppage time, an unmarked Benteke rose imperiously to clinch it.
(20) The assumption that it is often prevents informed clinical intervention and leads to needless suffering.