basic needs

English

Noun

basic needs (uncountable)

1. 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
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: grunnleggende behov n