Necessitate - Definition
necessitate
v 1: require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do
what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This
job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position
demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls
for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not
postulate a patient's consent" [syn: necessitate, ask,
postulate, need, require, take, involve, call
for, demand] [ant: eliminate, obviate, rid of]
2: cause to be a concomitant