📒 to have a desire or a wish for something/somebody
- want somebody/something Do you want some more tea?
- to want children/kids
- to want peace/war/change
📒 to need something
- want something We'll want more furniture for the new office.
- What this house wants is a good clean.
- It wants a special sort of person for that job.
📒 to need somebody to be present in the place or for the purpose mentioned
- She's wanted immediately in the director's office.
- Excuse me, you're wanted on the phone.
📒 used to give advice to somebody, meaning ‘should’ or ‘ought to’
- If possible, you want to avoid alcohol.
- He wants to be more careful.
- You don't want to do it like that.
📒 to feel sexual desire for somebody
- ‘I want you so much,’ she whispered in his ear.
- Alice, please don't leave me. I want you. I need you. I can't live without you.
📒 to lack something
📒 to have or want to have the advantages of two different situations or ways of behaving that are impossible to combine
- You can't have it both ways. If you can afford to go out all the time, you can afford to pay off some of your debts.
📒 to refuse to accept something
- I offered to pay but he was having none of it.
- They pretended to be enthusiastic about my work but then suddenly decided they wanted none of it.
📒 to refuse to deal with somebody; to refuse to accept or consider something
- We in this party will have no truck with illegal organizations.
- Dave wants no truck with change. For him, things are just fine as they are.
📒 to take no interest in something because you do not care about it or it is too much trouble
- I've tried to ask her advice, but she doesn't want to know (= about my problems).
- ‘How much was it?’ ‘You don't want to know’ (= it is better if you don't know).
📒 to want to be free of somebody/something that has been annoying you or that you do not want
- Are you trying to say you want rid of me?
📒 if you never waste anything, especially food or money, you will always have it when you need it
📒 used to ask somebody in a rude or angry way why they are there or what they want you to do