Meaning

1 senses
  1. (not comparable)Of necessity or need; necessarily.

Origin

From Middle English needis cost, nedes cost, from needes (genitive of need (“need”)) + cos

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

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