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Etymology

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Dates back at least to theOld Englishhabban +tō construction, with the same meaning as sense 1 below.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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haveto (third-person singular simple presenthas to,present participlehaving to,simple past and past participlehad to)

  1. Must;need to; to beurged to; to berequired to;indicatesobligation.
    Synonyms:need to,have got to,got to,gotta
    Youhave to wear a seat belt.
    Ihave to go to the bathroom.
    I justhave to have that shirt.
    • 1897 December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill, chapter I, inThe Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC:
      I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I willhave to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.
    • 1951,John Wyndham,The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published1954, page 9:
      A nasty, empty feeling began to crawl up inside me. It was the same sensation I used to have sometimes as a child when I got to fancying that horrors were lurking in the shadowy corners of the bedroom; when I daren't put a foot out for fear that something should reach from under the bed and grab my ankle; daren't even reach for the switch lest the movement should cause something to leap at me. I had to fight down the feeling, just as I hadhad to when I was a kid in the dark.
    • 1951 September, “Notes and News: New Station for Glasgow Zoo”, inRailway Magazine, page639:
      Before the new station could be built, a private overbridgehad to be raised, and the railway regraded.
    • 2013 July-August,Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, inAmerican Scientist, volume101, number 4:
      Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire,had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.
    • 2023 December 27, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: the way to Weymouth”, inRAIL, number999, page55:
      The railway ran through the resort's narrow streets up to Weymouth Quay station, with thoughtlessly parked vehicles sometimeshaving to be bumped out of the way.
  2. (withbe)Must;expresses a logical conclusion.
    Synonyms:be bound to,have got to,got to,gotta,must
    thathas to be the postman;  ithas to be an electrical fault

Usage notes

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  • have is always followed by an infinitive verb, unless the verb is assumed:
I don't want to go to school, but Ihave to.

Translations

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obligation
conclusion
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