basic needs

English

Noun

basic needs (uncountable)

the absolute minimum resources necessary for long-term physical well-being, usually in terms of consumption goods
- 2013, Sam Cole, ‎Henry Lucas, Models, Planning and Basic Needs, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 43:
  Who then should determine basic needs? The answer seems to be the following: “The unequivocal answer is that the people themselves should decide on the scope, content and priority of their own basic needs”.

Translations

the absolute minimum resources necessary for long-term physical well-being

Dutch: basisbehoeften (nl) f

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