"needs-cost" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Middle English needis cost",
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      "expansion": "univerbation of needs + cost",
      "name": "univerbation"
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English needis cost, nedes cost, from needes (genitive of need (“need”)) + cost (“means”); synchronically analyzable as a univerbation of needs + cost.",
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        "Of necessity or need; necessarily."
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        {
          "word": "needs must"
        }
      ],
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        "not-comparable"
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  ],
  "word": "needs-cost"
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      "name": "univerbation"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English needis cost, nedes cost, from needes (genitive of need (“need”)) + cost (“means”); synchronically analyzable as a univerbation of needs + cost.",
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  "pos": "adv",
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        "Of necessity or need; necessarily."
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