Meanings
adjective
nounmust-have (plural must-haves)
plural must-haves
- An item that one must own, or a feature that is essential to a service, etc.
The selfie-stick is this year's must-have.
1 more example
There's a huge gulf between “must-have” and “nice-to-have” products. If you sell a nice-to-have product, no one, not even your best friends, will use it long term. We all focus on must-haves.
2021, Steven S. Hoffman, Surviving a Startup, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 58
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 必需的, 必不可少的
- 必需的 (bìxū de)essential to own
- 必不可少的 (bìbùkěshào)essential to own
- 必需品 (bìxūpǐn)essential item or feature
Finnish välttämätön, välttämättömyystarvike
- välttämätönessential to own
- välttämättömyystarvikeessential item or feature
French must
- mustessential item or feature
German Must-have
- Must-haveessential item or feature
Icelandic skyldueign
- skyldueignessential to own
Polish niezbędnik, niezbędnik
- niezbędnikessential to own
- niezbędnikessential item or feature
Portuguese essencial
- essencialessential item or feature
Russian необходимое
- необходимое (neobxodimoje)essential to own
Spanish esencial, fundamental
- esencialessential to own
- fundamentalessential to own
- imprescindibleessential to own
- esencialessential item or feature
- imprescindibleessential item or feature
- necesidadessential item or feature
Turkish olmazsa olmaz
- olmazsa olmazessential to own
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must-have. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/must-have
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“must-have.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/must-have. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “must-have,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/must-have.
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