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Cosa (chi) è Want - definizione

ECONOMIC TERM FOR SOMETHING THAT IS DESIRED

Wanting; Wants; Wanter

want

RADIO STATION IN LEBANON, TENNESSEE

Wanting; Wants; Wanter

(wants, wanting, wanted)

Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.

1.

If you want something, you feel a desire or a need for it.

I want a drink...

Ian knows exactly what he wants in life...

People wanted to know who this talented designer was...

They began to want their father to be the same as other daddies...

They didn't want people staring at them as they sat on the lawn, so they put up high walls...

He wanted his power recognised...

I want my car this colour...

And remember, we want him alive.

VERB: no cont, no passive, V n, V n, V to-inf, V n to-inf, V n -ing, V n -ed, V n n, V n adj/prep

2.

You can say that you want to say something to indicate that you are about to say it.

Look, I wanted to apologize for today. I think I was a little hard on you.

VERB: no cont, no passive, V to-inf

3.

You use want in questions as a way of making an offer or inviting someone to do something.

Do you want another cup of coffee?...

Do you want to leave your bike here?

VERB: no cont, no passive, V n, V to-inf

4.

If you say to someone that you want something, or ask them if they want to do it, you are firmly telling them what you want or what you want them to do.

I want an explanation from you, Jeremy...

If you have a problem with that, I want you to tell me right now...

Do you want to tell me what all this is about?...

I want my money back!

VERB: no cont, no passive, V n, V n to-inf, V to-inf, V n adv/prep

5.

If you say that something wants doing, you think that it needs to be done. (mainly BRIT INFORMAL)

Her hair wants cutting.

= need

VERB: no cont, no passive, V -ing

6.

If you tell someone that they want to do a particular thing, you are advising them to do it. (INFORMAL)

You want to be very careful not to have a man like Crevecoeur for an enemy...

= ought

VERB: no cont, no passive, V to-inf

7.

If someone is wanted by the police, the police are searching for them because they are thought to have committed a crime.

He was wanted for the murder of a magistrate.

VERB: usu passive, be V-ed for n

• wanted

He is one of the most wanted criminals in Europe.

ADJ: ADJ n

8.

If you want someone, you have a great desire to have sex with them.

Come on, darling. I want you.

VERB: V n

9.

If a child is wanted, its mother or another person loves it and is willing to look after it.

Children should be wanted and planned...

I want this baby very much, because it certainly will be the last.

VERB: be V-ed, V n

10.

A want of something is a lack of it. (FORMAL)

...a want of manners and charm...

= lack

N-SING: also no det, N of n

11.

Your wants are the things that you want.

Supermarkets often claim that they are responding to the wants of consumers by providing packaged foods.

N-PLURAL: usu with poss

12.

If you do something for want of something else, you do it because the other thing is not available or not possible.

Many of them had gone into teaching for want of anything better to do...

PHRASE: PHR n, PHR with v

want

RADIO STATION IN LEBANON, TENNESSEE

Wanting; Wants; Wanter

¦ verb

1. have a desire to possess or do (something); wish for.

wish to speak to (someone).

(be wanted) (of a suspected criminal) be sought by the police for questioning.

desire (someone) sexually.

2. informal, chiefly Brit. (of a thing) require to be attended to: the wheel wants greasing.

should or need to do something.

3. (often want for) literary lack or be short of something desirable or essential.

¦ noun

1. lack or deficiency.

poverty.

2. a desire.

Derivatives

wanter noun

Origin

ME: the noun from ON vant, neut. of vanr 'lacking'; the verb from ON vanta 'be lacking'.

Want

RADIO STATION IN LEBANON, TENNESSEE

Wanting; Wants; Wanter

·vi To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to Lack.

II. Want ·vi A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.

III. Want ·vi Specifically, absence or lack of necessaries; destitution; poverty; penury; indigence; need.

IV. Want ·vt To feel need of; to wish or long for; to Desire; to Crave.

V. Want ·vi That which is needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt; what is not possessed, and is necessary for use or pleasure.

VI. Want ·vt To be without; to be destitute of, or deficient in; not to have; to Lack; as, to want knowledge; to want judgment; to want learning; to want food and clothing.

VII. Want ·vt To have occasion for, as useful, proper, or requisite; to Require; to Need; as, in winter we want a fire; in summer we want cooling breezes.

VIII. Want ·vi The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of power or knowledge for any purpose; want of food and clothing.

IX. Want ·vi To be absent; to be deficient or lacking; to Fail; not to be sufficient; to fall or come short; to Lack;

- often used impersonally with of; as, it wants ten minutes of four.

Wikipedia

Want

The idea of want can be examined from many perspectives. In secular societies want might be considered similar to the emotion desire, which can be studied scientifically through the disciplines of psychology or sociology. Alternatively want can be studied in a non-secular, spiritual, moralistic or religious way, particularly by Buddhism but also Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

In economics, a want is something that is desired. It is said that every person has unlimited wants, but limited resources (economics is based on the assumption that only limited resources are available to us). Thus, people cannot have everything they want and must look for the most affordable alternatives.

Wants are often distinguished from needs. A need is something that is necessary for survival (such as food and shelter), whereas a want is simply something that a person would like to have. Some economists have rejected this distinction and maintain that all of these are simply wants, with varying levels of importance. By this viewpoint, wants and needs can be understood as examples of the overall concept of demand.

Examples of wants that people would like to have is financial monitoring, saving time, higher paying job, more comfort, healthier diet, physical fitness, spirituality, friendship, companionship and safety.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Want

Esempi dal corpus di testo per Want

1. "We want to be positive, we want to cooperate, we want a long–term relationship, we want a partnership.

2. They want to know what happened, they want to see TV footage, they want answers and they want justice.

3. I want counterculture, I want anti–establishment.

4. "We don‘t want food, we don‘t want schools, we want security!" said one woman council member.

5. "Well, men might want you, but not the types you want to want you.