want

1. (transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.Examples: "I want you as a friend, not a foe."; "What do you want to eat?  I want you to leave.  I never wanted to go back to live with my mother."; "And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good."transitive

2. (transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.Examples: "The game developers of Candy Crush want you to waste large, copious amounts of your money on in-game purchases to buy boosters and lives."; "Depression wants you to feel like the world is dark and that you are not worthy of happiness. The first step to making your life better from this day forward is to stop believing these lies."broadlytransitive

3. (transitive, in particular) To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.Examples: "Ma’am, you are exactly the professional we want for this job."; "Danish police want him for embezzlement."; "But now it's different, if the police want him for murder."transitive

4. (intransitive) To desire (to experience desire); to wish.Examples: "You can leave if you want."; "TYRION: You don't want it? BRAN: I don't really want anymore."intransitive

5. (colloquial, usually second person, often future tense) To be advised to do something (compare should, ought).Examples: "You’ll want to repeat this three or four times to get the best result."colloquialsecond-personusually

6. (transitive, now colloquial) To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).Examples: "The lady, it is said, will inherit a fortune of three hundred pounds a year, with two cool thousands left by an uncle, on her arriving at the age of twenty-one, of which she wants but a few months."; "Oh Jeanie, it will be hard, after every thing is ready for our happiness, if we should be sundered. It wants but a few days o' Martinmas, and then I maun enter on my new service on Loch Rannoch, where a bonny shieling is ready ..."; "In this we have just read an address to children in England, Ireland, and Scotland, in behalf of children who want food to keep them from starvation."Synonyms: need, be in need ofcolloquialtransitive