Collocations for "essential"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "essential" in context.
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essential
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.adj
- is an essential part of the [plan, company, machine]
- the most essential [part, aspect, feature, point] is
- is essential for [victory, success, the job]
- is essential to the [plan]
- is essential to [ensure, have, provide]
- it's essential for you to [do, try, realize, be, make]
- is essential that we all [pitch in, help out, contribute]
- [discipline, motivation, experience] is essential
- an essential guide to
- an essential reading list
- an essential [addition, inclusion] in any (wardrobe)
- serves an essential function
- [played, had, performed] an essential role in
- get your essential [nutrients, fatty acids, minerals, vitamins]
- an essential oil
- is essential to life
- was [considered, thought, deemed] non-essential
- [experience, a degree] is desirable but not essential
- the [daily, travel, weekly] essentials
- the essentials of the [job, plan, argument]
- just [take, bring, pack] the essentials
- a [car, bike] is an essential if you want to
- is an essential for [visiting, touring, taking in] (the area)
- is one of [life's, work's] essentials
- is an essential in [modern, family] living
- is an essential for a [healthy, successful, productive] life
- an essential for any [builder, traveler, student]
- only had the [bare, minimum] essentials
- essentials in the way of [equipment, clothes, tools]
- essentials like [a hair dryer, creams, a cellphone]
- [able, quick] to [understand, grasp] the essentials
- [learn, teach, show] the essentials of the job
- [stripped, broken] down to its (bare) essentials
'essential' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
access
- acumen
- advancement
- asset
- attribute
- bold
- caring
- caution
- clue
- commodity
- component
- detection
- development
- diagnosis
- discipline
- education
- element
- enforcement
- fatty
- frame
- furnish
- happiness
- honesty
- inherent
- integral
- integrity
- involvement
- limit
- looking
- maize
- marrow
- massage
- need
- omit
- overhaul
- provision
- question
- rule
- satisfaction
- security
- sense
- success
- survival
- technology
- timing
- tiresome
- wardrobe
- water
- well-being