necessitate

verb
🔊/nəˈsesɪteɪt/
🔊/nəˈsesɪteɪt/
(formal)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they necessitate
🔊/nəˈsesɪteɪt/
🔊/nəˈsesɪteɪt/
he / she / it necessitates
🔊/nəˈsesɪteɪts/
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past simple necessitated
🔊/nəˈsesɪteɪtɪd/
🔊/nəˈsesɪteɪtɪd/
past participle necessitated
🔊/nəˈsesɪteɪtɪd/
🔊/nəˈsesɪteɪtɪd/
-ing form necessitating
🔊/nəˈsesɪteɪtɪŋ/
🔊/nəˈsesɪteɪtɪŋ/
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  1. to make something necessary使成为必要
    • necessitate something Recent financial scandals have necessitated changes in parliamentary procedures.最近的金融丑闻使得议会程序必须改革。🔊🔊
    • necessitate doing something Increased traffic necessitated widening the road.交通量增大,这就需要拓宽道路。🔊🔊
    • necessitate somebody/something doing something His new job necessitated him/his getting up at six.新工作使他不得不六点钟起床。
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryNecessitate is used with these nouns as the object:
    • removal
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    Word Originearly 17th cent.: from medieval Latin necessitat- ‘compelled’, from the verb necessitare, based on Latin necesse ‘be needful’.