Another Word For HAVE_TO

have got to

Verb : Alternative form of have to (“must”) [Must; need to; to be urged to; to be required to; indicates obligation.]

need

Noun : (countable and uncountable) A requirement for something; something needed.

Noun : Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.

have got

Verb : (transitive, idiomatic, especially UK) To have.

Verb : (modal, idiomatic, with infinitive) To be obliged or obligated; must, have to, got to

be supposed to

ought to

Verb : (auxiliary) Indicating duty or obligation.

Verb : (auxiliary) Indicating advisability or prudence.

Verb : (auxiliary) Indicating desirability.

should

Verb : (auxiliary) Ought to; indicating opinion, advice, or instruction, about what is required or desirable.

Verb : Used to issue an instruction (traditionally seen as carrying less force of authority than alternatives such as 'shall' or 'must').

Verb : Used to give advice or opinion that an action is, or would have been, beneficial or desirable.

necessitate

Verb : (transitive) To make necessary; to behove; to require (something) to be brought about.

Verb : (of circumstances) To force into a certain course of action; compel.

behove

Verb : (transitive, formal) To befit, to suit.

Verb : (transitive, formal) To be necessary for (someone).

Verb : (transitive, formal) To be in the best interest of; to benefit.

require

Verb : To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively.

Verb : Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary.

Verb : To demand (of someone) to do something.

expect

Verb : (ambitransitive) To predict or believe that something will happen

Verb : To consider obligatory or required.

Verb : To consider reasonably due.

got to

Verb : (informal) Alternative form of have got to (“have to; must”)

have

Verb : (transitive) To possess, own.

Verb : (transitive) To hold, as something at someone's disposal.

Verb : (transitive) To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.

mandate

Noun : An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.

Noun : (politics) The order or authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.

Noun : (Canada) A period during which a government is in power.

take

Verb : (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.

Verb : (transitive) To seize or capture.

Verb : (transitive) To catch or get possession of (fish or game).

want

Verb : (transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.

Verb : (by extension) To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it.

Verb : (transitive, in particular) To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.

demand

Noun : The desire to purchase goods and services.

Noun : (economics) The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.

Noun : A forceful claim for something.

import

Noun : (countable) Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade.

Noun : (uncountable) The practice of importing.

Noun : (countable, Philippines) A foreigner playing in a sports league.

command

Noun : An order to do something.

Noun : The right or authority to order, control or dispose of; the right to be obeyed or to compel obedience.

Noun : power of control, direction or disposal; mastery.

thair

Verb : Archaic spelling of there. [(location) In or at a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) that is perceived to be away from, or at a relative distance from, the speaker (compare here).]

call

Noun : A cry or shout.

Noun : The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.

Noun : A beckoning or summoning.

call for

Verb : To shout out in order to summon (a person).

Verb : To ask for in a loud voice.

Verb : (figuratively) To request, demand.

'd better

Verb : (modal, auxiliary verb) Contraction of had better. [(idiomatic, with bare infinitive, informal) Should; ought to; need to; must.]

obligate

Verb : (transitive) To bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral tie.

Verb : (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To cause to be grateful or indebted; to oblige.

Verb : (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation.

must

Verb : To do as a requirement; indicates that the sentence subject is required as an imperative or directive to execute the sentence predicate, with failure to do so resulting in a failure or negative consequence.

Verb : To do with certainty; indicates that the speaker is certain that the subject will have executed the predicate.

Verb : Used to indicate that something is very likely, probable, or certain to be true.

cost

Noun : Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.

Noun : A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.

Noun : (obsolete) Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.

oblige

Verb : (transitive) To constrain someone by force or by social, moral or legal means.

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To do (someone) a service or favour (hence, originally, creating an obligation).

Verb : (intransitive) To be indebted to someone.

make

Verb : (transitive) To create.

Verb : To build, construct, produce, or originate.

Verb : To write or compose.

lie upon

Verb : (archaic) To be incumbent upon; to be up to (someone); to be obligatory upon.

Verb : To lie on.

Verb : (obsolete) To importune; to urge; to solicit.

obligatorize

Verb : (linguistics) To make (something) obligatory, or more obligatory.

compel testimony

Verb : (law) To officially require that a witness appear and testify before a court of law or other public authority, under threat of legally enforceable penalties for failure to do so.

instruct

Verb : (transitive) To teach by giving instructions.

Verb : (transitive) To tell (someone) what they must or should do.

Verb : (transitive) To give (one's own lawyer) legal instructions as to how they should act in relation to a particular issue; thereby formally appointing them as one's own legal representative in relation to it.

enforce

Verb : To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force.

Verb : To give strength or force to; to affirm, to emphasize.

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To strengthen (a castle, town etc.) with extra troops, fortifications etc.

charge

Noun : The amount of money levied for a service.

Noun : (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.

Noun : A forceful forward movement.

would

Verb : Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.

Verb : Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time.

Verb : Used to, did repeatedly, habitually; indicates an action that happened several times in the past (cannot describe continuous states, as in I used to live in London)

drive

Noun : Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.

Noun : Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; (especially) a forced or hurried dispatch of business.

Noun : An act of driving (prompting) animals forward.

impose

Verb : (transitive)

Verb : (archaic) To physically lay or place (something) on another thing; to deposit, to put, to set.

Verb : (Christianity) To lay or place (one's hands) on someone as a blessing, during rites of confirmation, ordination, etc.

suppose

Verb : (transitive) To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.

Verb : (transitive) To theorize or hypothesize.

Verb : (transitive) To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.

renecessitate

Verb : (transitive) To necessitate again.

do the needful

Verb : (India, Nigeria, dated UK) To do that which is necessary or required.

bring oneself to

Verb : (chiefly in the negative, with can or be able to) To force oneself to do something (usually unpleasant); to gather the courage to do something. [with infinitive]

desire

Noun : (uncountable) The feeling of desiring; an eager longing for something.

Noun : (countable) Someone or something wished for.

Noun : (uncountable) Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual.

entail

Verb : (transitive) To imply, require, or invoke.

Verb : (transitive) To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor.

exact

Adjective : Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.

Adjective : Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual.

Adjective : Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.

depend

Verb : (intransitive, followed by on or upon, formerly also by of like independent does) To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition; to hinge on.

Verb : (intransitive, usually followed by on or upon) To trust; to have confidence; to rely.

Verb : (now literary, heraldry) To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above, especially in heraldry, where a badge, decoration, or element is suspended from another part of an achievement of arms.

stipulate

Verb : (transitive) To require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement.

Verb : (transitive) To specify, promise or guarantee something in an agreement.

Verb : (US, transitive, formal, law) To acknowledge the truth of; not to challenge.

hold to

Verb : To share or subscribe to (a belief, etc.).

Verb : To adhere strongly to (a conviction, story, etc.).

Verb : To compel (someone) to remain faithful to (a commitment, moral standard, etc.).

crave

Verb : (ambitransitive) To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for.

Verb : (transitive, archaic or literary) To ask for earnestly; to beg or demand, as from a figure of authority.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To call for; to require as a course of action.

compel

Verb : (transitive, archaic, literally) To drive together, round up.

Verb : (transitive) To overpower; to subdue.

Verb : (transitive) To force, constrain, or coerce.

exhort

Verb : To urge; to advise earnestly.

govern

Verb : (transitive) To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.

Verb : (intransitive) To exercise political authority; to run a government.

Verb : (transitive) To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.

press

Noun : An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.

Noun : (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.

Noun : (uncountable) A crowd.

mind

Noun : The capability for rational thought.

Noun : The ability to be aware of things.

Noun : The ability to remember things.

could

Verb : conditional of can

Verb : Used as a past subjunctive (contrary to fact).

Verb : Used to politely ask for permission to do something.

dictate

Verb : To order, command, control.

Verb : To speak in order for someone to write down the words.

Verb : To determine or decisively affect.

warn

Verb : (transitive) To make (someone) aware of (something impending); especially:

Verb : (transitive) To make (someone) aware of impending danger, evil, etc.

Verb : (transitive) To notify or inform (someone, about something).

should on

Verb : (informal) To impose judgment on (oneself or others) by telling them what they should do.

touch

Noun : An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.

Noun : The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.

Noun : The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.

lean on

Verb : Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lean, on.

Verb : (figurative) To depend upon for support; to require assistance from.

Verb : To put pressure on; to attempt to compel a person to do something; to exert influence on.

hote

Verb : (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To command; to enjoin.

Verb : (obsolete) To promise.

Verb : (obsolete, intransitive) To be called, be named.

owe it to oneself

Verb : For it to be necessary for one (to do something) in order to advance one's one interests; to deserve.

bend to one's will

Verb : (idiomatic, transitive) To compel someone or something to conform to one's desires.

meed

Noun : (now literary, archaic) A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward; award.

Noun : A gift; bribe.

Noun : (dated) Merit; worth.

will

Noun : One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.

Noun : The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition.

Noun : One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.

stand to

Verb : To tolerate (something); to be able to withstand (something) stressful that will be ultimately beneficial.

Verb : To be on the verge of (something) happening, if certain conditions are met.

Verb : (archaic) To live up to; to insist upon or maintain.

take one's medicine

Verb : (idiomatic, informal) To endure an unpleasant obligation, especially a punishment.

Verb : Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, medicine.

postulate

Noun : Something assumed without proof as being self-evident or generally accepted, especially when used as a basis for an argument. Sometimes distinguished from axioms as being relevant to a particular science or context, rather than universally true, and following from other axioms rather than being an absolute assumption.

Noun : A fundamental element; a basic principle.

Noun : (logic) An axiom.

say the word

Verb : (idiomatic) To indicate that it is time to perform an action; to give permission.

do one's duty

Verb : (euphemistic) Synonym of use the toilet: to urinate or defecate.

Verb : Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see do, duty.

reoblige

Verb : To oblige again; to once again place under an obligation.

call to

Verb : (transitive) To tempt (someone or something); to beckon; to be difficult to resist.

Verb : (transitive) To be caused to feel a spiritual urge to join the Catholic priesthood; to be fated to join the Catholic priesthood.

force

Noun : Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.

Noun : Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.

Noun : (countable) Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing.

commaund

Noun : Obsolete form of command. [An order to do something.]

have reason

Verb : (obsolete) To be right.

Verb : To have grounds, justification etc. (to do something, or for something).

insist

Verb : (with (that + indicative) or intransitive, with on or upon) To hold up a claim emphatically.

Verb : (sometimes with (that + subjunctive) or intransitive, with on or upon) To demand continually that something happen or be done; to reiterate a demand despite requests to abandon it.

Verb : (obsolete, chiefly geometry) To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).

behoove

Verb : (transitive, chiefly US) To befit, be appropriate or necessary to somebody. Alternative form of behove.

Verb : (intransitive) To be fitting.

remember

Verb : To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.

Verb : To memorize; to put something into memory.

Verb : To keep in mind; to be mindful of.

tend

Verb : (law, Old English law) To make a tender of; to offer or tender.

Verb : (followed by a to-infinitive) To be likely, or probable to do something, or to have a certain habit or leaning.

Verb : (intransitive) To contribute to or toward some outcome.

order

Noun : (countable) Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.

Noun : (countable) A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.

Noun : (uncountable) The state of being well arranged.

have on

Verb : To be wearing.

Verb : To have turned on (an electronic device).

Verb : (UK, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) To trick or deceive deliberately; to play a prank on.

answer to

Verb : To be accountable or responsible to; to account to; to report to.

Verb : To justify oneself to (someone). (usually with have to)

Verb : To respond to (a name); to treat as one's own name.

bring to terms

Verb : (transitive, archaic) To compel to accept certain conditions.

entayle

Noun : Obsolete form of entail. [That which is entailed.]

Verb : Obsolete form of entail. [(transitive) To imply, require, or invoke.]

obey

Verb : (transitive) To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of.

Verb : (intransitive) To do as one is told.

Verb : (obsolete, intransitive) To be obedient, compliant (to a given law, restriction etc.).

recompel

Verb : (transitive) To compel again.

take responsibility

Verb : To blame oneself for something; to acknowledge a fault.

Verb : To accept or take on an obligation or liability.

coerce

Verb : (transitive) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.

Verb : (transitive) To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will.

Verb : (transitive, computing) To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.

requite

Verb : (transitive)

Verb : To repay (a debt owed); specifically, to recompense or reward someone for (a favour, a service rendered, etc.)

Verb : To repay (someone) a debt owed; specifically, to recompense or reward (someone) for a favour, a service rendered, etc.

refer

Verb : (transitive) To direct the attention of (someone toward something)

Verb : (transitive) To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.

Verb : (transitive) To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation.

hight

Noun : A surname.

Noun : Obsolete form of height. [The distance from the base to the top of something.]

implore

Verb : (transitive)

Verb : To beg or plead for (something) earnestly or urgently; to beseech.

Verb : To beg or plead that (someone) earnestly or urgently do something; to beseech, to entreat.

condition

Noun : A state or quality.

Noun : A particular state of being.

Noun : (obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.

caution

Noun : Prudence when faced with, or when expecting to face, danger; care taken in order to avoid risk or harm.

Noun : A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided.

Noun : Security; guaranty; bail.

urge on

Verb : (transitive) to encourage; motivate; to offer encouragement to.

bear upon

Verb : To influence, have an effect upon.

Verb : To be relevant to.

have a mind to

Verb : To intend to (do something).

engage

Verb : To interact socially.

Verb : (transitive) To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.

Verb : (ambitransitive) To draw into conversation.

challenge

Noun : A confrontation; a dare.

Noun : An antagonization or instigation intended to convince a person to perform an action they otherwise would not.

Noun : A bid to overcome something.

advise

Verb : (transitive) To give advice to; to offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed.

Verb : (transitive) To recommend; to offer as advice.

Verb : (transitive) To give information or notice to; to inform or counsel. [with of ‘what is communicated’]

require improvement

Verb : (stative, UK, meiosis) To be in a state of failing.

Verb : Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see require, improvement.

fulfill

Verb : (transitive) To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.).

Verb : (transitive) To emotionally or artistically satisfy; to develop one's gifts to the fullest.

Verb : (transitive) To obey, follow, comply with (a rule, requirement etc.).

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