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English word

need

A2Frequent NGSL-1
UK /niːd/US /niːd/
noun

a situation when something is necessary or must be done

verb

to require something/somebody because they are essential or very important, not just because you would like to have them

modal verb

used to state that something is/was not necessary or that only very little is/was necessary; used to ask if something is/was necessary

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So we thought, 'Well, the media industry would need help converting its content from print to electronic, and they clearly had money.'

Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture

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