"needwise" meaning in English

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        "2": "need",
        "3": "wise"
      },
      "expansion": "need + -wise",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From need + -wise.",
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      "expansion": "needwise (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Kay Redfield Jamison, Nothing was the same: a memoir",
          "text": "Needwise, I avoided love. I kept my mind on a short lead and my heart yet closer in; had I cared enough to look I doubt I would have recognized either of them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "By or because of necessity; according to need; by need."
      ],
      "id": "en-needwise-en-adv-fGAXG9o4",
      "links": [
        [
          "necessity",
          "necessity"
        ],
        [
          "need",
          "need"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "needways"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "needwise"
}

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "need",
        "3": "wise"
      },
      "expansion": "need + -wise",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From need + -wise.",
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "needwise (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "needways"
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "ref": "2009, Kay Redfield Jamison, Nothing was the same: a memoir",
          "text": "Needwise, I avoided love. I kept my mind on a short lead and my heart yet closer in; had I cared enough to look I doubt I would have recognized either of them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "By or because of necessity; according to need; by need."
      ],
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        [
          "necessity",
          "necessity"
        ],
        [
          "need",
          "need"
        ]
      ],
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        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "needwise"
}