• anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the Essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"
• applying to Essential legal principles and rules of right; "substantive law"
• basic and fundamental; "the Essential feature"
• absolutely required and not to be used up or sacrificed
• of the greatest importance; "the all-important subject of disarmament"; "crucial information"; "in chess cool nerves are of the essence"
• absolutely necessary; vitally necessary; "Essential tools and materials"; "funds Essential to the completion of the project"; "an indispensable worker"
• being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc; "Essential oil"

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