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necessitate

 verb
     
ne‧ces‧si‧tate [transitive] formal
to make it necessary for you to do something:
Lack of money necessitated a change of plan.
necessitate doing something
This would necessitate interviewing all the staff.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

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