indispensability

  • 101indispensable — adjective someone or something that is indispensable is so important or useful that it is impossible to manage without them: a piece of equipment that modern divers regard as indispensable indispensably adverb indispensability noun (U) …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 102necessary — adjective 1) parental permission is necessary Syn: obligatory, requisite, required, compulsory, mandatory, imperative, needed, de rigueur; essential, indispensable, vital 2) a necessary consequence Syn …

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  • 103Iwata, Iwao — 1905 1955 A Japanese accounting and auditing theorist. Known for his reformist agenda, Iwata (along with *Kiyoshi Kurosawa) was a major figure in Japan’s establishment of U.S. style corporate external auditing requirements following World War II …

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  • 104necessity — n 1. requirement, requisite, prerequisite, necessary; makings, what it takes; necessaries, necessities, essentials, bare essentials or necessities; Latin, sine qua non. 2. indispensability, essentiality, needfulness, Archaic. necessitude;… …

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  • 105need — n 1. requirement, demand, requisite, prerequisite; obligation, duty, charge; necessity, essential, Latin, sine qua non; necessitude, essentiality, indispensability. 2. want, lack, desideratum; default, dearth, insufficiency, shortness, paucity,… …

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  • 106requirement — n 1. need, necessity, urgent need, dire necessity, imperative; must, must item, essential, Latin, sine qua non. indispensable, basic; exigency, essentiality, indispensability. 2. demand, exaction, call, directive; bidding, command, mandate,… …

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  • 107urgency — n imperativeness, imperative, pressingness, exigency, instancy; extremity, dire necessity, stress, press, matter of life and death, pinch; compulsion, needfulness, indispensability, necessitousness; crisis, emergency, juncture; gravity,… …

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  • 108necessity — ne•ces•si•ty [[t]nəˈsɛs ɪ ti[/t]] n. pl. ties 1) something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life[/ex] 2) the fact of being necessary or indispensable; indispensability: the necessity of adequate housing[/ex] 3)… …

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  • 109Bibliography —   INTRODUCTION   The imposing number of books and articles that have been published in recent years about the Holocaust has made it necessary to prioritize the literature in regard to significance. As a consequence, a bibliography of the… …

    Historical dictionary of the Holocaust

  • 110indispensable — /ɪndəsˈpɛnsəbəl / (say induhs pensuhbuhl) adjective 1. not dispensable; absolutely necessary or requisite: an indispensable employee. 2. that cannot be disregarded or neglected: an indispensable obligation. –noun 3. someone or something that is… …