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needed
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective needed has 1 sense
- needed(s = adj.all) needful, required, requisite - necessary for relief or supply; "provided them with all things needful"
CIDE DICTIONARY
needed, adj.
necessary; as, provided them with all needed equipment. Opposite of unnecessary . [WordNet 1.5]
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