Necessary and Use

Necessary

Necessary noun - Something necessary, indispensable, or unavoidable.

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Use and necessary are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Use" instead a noun "Necessary".

Nearby Words: necessity, necessarily

Use noun - The act or practice of employing something for a particular purpose.

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Necessary and use are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Necessary" instead a noun "Use".

Nearby Words: useless, useful, used, usefulness, using

good	good necessary	good use
common	common necessary	common use
real	real necessary	real use
excellent	excellent necessary	excellent use
Other adjectives: magic, new, frequent, possible, different.

Navy's argument—that it'd be cheaper simply to prop the Guomindang up with the bare minimum of support necessary and use the Pacific Fleet to "island hop" into a position where they can blockade or even invade the Japanese Home Islands—wins out.

Source: World War II / War In Asia And The Pacific
The ability to negate enemy toughness, weapon skill and/or armor are also indicators of a good close combat troop (although there are instances where a unit does indeed have poison or power weapons, but lack the necessary numbers or attacks to actually use them).

Source: Guns Are Worthless
While melee enemies can be lured into suicidal charges, any enemy with a ranged attack will only get as close as is necessary to use it.

Source: Video Game / Odium

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