Decrease and Need

noun

• A change downward.
  • usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
  • synonyms: lessening, drop-off
• A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The amount by which something decreases.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The act of decreasing or reducing something.
  • synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

• Decrease in size, extent, or range.
  • usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
  • synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
• Make smaller.
  • usage: "He decreased his staff"
  • synonyms: lessen, minify

• (v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
• (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
• (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
• (v.) The wane of the moon.

noun

• A condition requiring relief.
  • usage: "she satisfied his need for affection"; "God has no need of men to accomplish His work"; "there is a demand for jobs"
  • synonyms: demand
• Anything that is necessary but lacking.
  • usage: "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants"
  • synonyms: want
• The psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior.
  • usage: "we did not understand his motivation"; "he acted with the best of motives"
  • synonyms: motivation, motive
• A state of extreme poverty or destitution.
  • usage: "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"
  • synonyms: indigence, penury, pauperism, pauperization

verb

• Require as useful, just, or proper.
  • usage: "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
  • synonyms: necessitate, ask, postulate, require, take, involve, call for, demand
• Have need of.
  • usage: "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"
  • synonyms: want, require
• Have or feel a need for.
  • usage: "always needing friends and money"

• (adv.) Of necessity. See Needs.
• (n.) A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.
• (v.i.) To be wanted; to be necessary.
• (n.) Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
• (n.) That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business.
• (n.) Situation of need; peril; danger.
• (n.) To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.
• (adv.) Of necessity. See Needs.
• (v.i.) To be wanted; to be necessary.
• (n.) That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business.
• (n.) A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.
• (n.) To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.
• (n.) Situation of need; peril; danger.
• (n.) Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.

Need is the difference between a student's resources (the estimated family contribution and outside resources, such as scholarships) and the cost of attendance of a school.