Need and Sale

Need

Need noun - A state of being without something necessary, desirable, or useful.

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Sale and need are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sale" instead a noun "Need".

Nearby Words: needed, needs, needy, needless, needful

Sale noun - The transfer of ownership of something from one person to another for a price.

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Need and sale are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Need" instead a noun "Sale".

Nearby Words: saleable, salable, saleroom

human	human need	human sale
good	good need	good sale
high	high need	high sale
particular	particular need	particular sale
Other adjectives: original, legitimate, genuine, single, actual, big, huge, immediate, general, further, occasional.

There are things up for sale that people besides Link might want or need, but Link is the only one who will need all of them.

Source: An Economy Is You
He then proceeds to make fun of the customers admittedly strange request ("I need to know if they're real leather because they have to go with a sofa.") to the point of outright preventing a sale.

Source: Establishing Character Moment / Live-Action TV
About the only item for sale that's not easy to come by on its own are FireFlies, but you rarely need those and they're not technically necessary anyway. Ms.

Source: Video Game / Star Fox Adventures

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