Definition of "needing" []

• Present participle of need. (verb)

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• ""If 'Light My Fire' hadn't made the Doors into stars," Mr. Marcus suggests, "you can hear how their music could have curdled into artiness, everything self-referential, post-modern, each note a parody of something else, not a word needing to mean what it said, the group more popular in Paris or Milan.""
• "His eyes were swollen and red when he returned, not a word needing to be exchanged between us."
• "What I will be needing is a table (preferably wrought-iron and glass-topped) with chairs."