serve the needs
idiom
: to provide things that someone or something needs
The library serves the needs of the community.
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Welfare spending and critical social services, for instance, become downstream necessities, mitigating the precarity and homelessness that directly result from an economic model built to serve the needs of the rich.
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Daniel Wortel-London, New York Daily News, 26 June 2025
But criticism has been far-reaching, with opponents arguing that selling off public land could have irreparable environmental consequences, and that any resulting housing developments are unlikely to serve the needs of ordinary Americans.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
The prospect of mile after mile of 140-foot steel gray towers winding their way through Baltimore, Carroll and Frederick county wetlands, forest and countryside to serve the needs of Virginia data centers has caused the citizens of those counties to respond in understandable anger.
—Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 29 May 2025
Its database is engineered for high performance at scale to serve the needs of mission-critical applications that enterprises run their businesses on.
—Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 17 May 2025
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Daniel Wortel-London, New York Daily News, 26 June 2025
But criticism has been far-reaching, with opponents arguing that selling off public land could have irreparable environmental consequences, and that any resulting housing developments are unlikely to serve the needs of ordinary Americans.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
The prospect of mile after mile of 140-foot steel gray towers winding their way through Baltimore, Carroll and Frederick county wetlands, forest and countryside to serve the needs of Virginia data centers has caused the citizens of those counties to respond in understandable anger.
—Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 29 May 2025
Its database is engineered for high performance at scale to serve the needs of mission-critical applications that enterprises run their businesses on.
—Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 17 May 2025
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“Serve the needs.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/serve%20the%20needs. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.
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