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- noun
necessary orindispensable items
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Examples
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"Yes," said Wright, "but long enough for an accident; how I do like necessaries;" adding, in an undertone, as he pulled his wife along, something about "enough for _tavern debts_, but nothing to buy _necessaries_."
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Into this pit the women dragged bedding, food, and all sorts of necessaries from the wagons.
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Into this pit the women dragged bedding, food, and all sorts of necessaries from the wagons.
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He has pointed out that certain necessaries of life, such as tea and coffee, are taxed.
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When we dine out, to/[Page 12]/see as much money expended on a dessert of fruit (for no use but to give people a colic) as would keep us in necessaries for two or three weeks!
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The commanding officer, Major -- afterwards General -- Heintzelman, issued the regulation allowance of emigrant rations, which were very grateful to men who had been living for some time without what are usually called the necessaries of life.
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The articles or forms of consumption to which the consumer clings with the greatest tenacity are commonly the so-called necessaries of life, or the subsistence minimum.
The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions
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The Monastery ought, if possible, to be so constructed as to contain within itself all necessaries, that is, water, a mill, a garden, and a bakehouse; also that the various crafts be exercised within it, so that there be no occasion for Monks to go abroad, because it is in no wise expedient for their souls.
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The articles or forms of consumption to which the consumer clings with the greatest tenacity are commonly the so-called necessaries of life, or the subsistence minimum.
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That is, producing things or doing things which -- though useful and necessary to the Imbecile System -- cannot be described as the necessaries of life or the benefits of civilization.
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