Definition of "necessitate" []

• To make necessary or unavoidable. (verb-transitive)
• To require or compel. (verb-transitive)

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• "Our ability to navigate the compromises those conflicting rights necessitate is what makes us good at living collectively, or not."
• "We are said to have converted a proposition per accidens, or by limitation, when the rules for the distribution of terms necessitate a reduction in the original quantity of the proposition."
• "If they don't, what will their Ministerial salary be, and what increase will the posts 'necessitate' to the staffing etc. of the existing regional offices?"