Personal needs vs Personal need

Both "personal needs" and "personal need" can be correct depending on the context. "Personal needs" is used when referring to multiple needs of an individual, while "personal need" is used when talking about a single need of a person.

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Personal needs

This phrase is correct and commonly used when referring to multiple needs of an individual.

Use "personal needs" when talking about various requirements or desires that belong to a person.

Examples:

She attends to her personal needs before helping others.
Understanding your personal needs is essential for personal growth.
Everyone has different personal needs that must be met.
His personal needs were not being met in his current job.
The company caters to the personal needs of its employees.

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This is about more than your personal needs.
So you're saying you put your personal needs
Moreover, authorised traders, especially those working in border areas, are having to face competition from neighbouring countries, where French customers purchase in some cases in excess of their personal needs.
"NOT FOR SALE TO THE CONSUMER FOR HIS PERSONAL NEEDS", TO WHICH SHALL BE ADDED, AS APPROPRIATE, "PRODUCE FOR PROPAGATION".
This is about more than your personal needs.
But when personal needs... are regulated by barter... they can be satisfied only relatively.
You put your personal needs ahead of the safety of everyone on the planet and not for the first time.
A period of observation lasting at least 1 day a year should provide the necessary information to target the periodic training according to the personal needs of the examiner.
Use of any home care services for personal needs during the past 12 months
But isn't it selfish of me to put my personal needs over the duties of my position?
- 50 times the Subsistence Minimum for Personal Needs in case of stay for the purposes of business activity the total period of which is to exceed 90 days, or
- 15 times the Subsistence Minimum for Personal Needs if the period of stay in the Territory is to exceed 30 days while this sum shall be increased to double the subsistence minimum for each whole month of expected stay in the Territory,
Maintaining the possibility of having shorter parts of a split daily rest in the course of the day enables drivers to attend to personal needs better and to organise their working day as circumstances demand (traffic, delays, etc.).
For supply of goods which are not pre-made and for whose production an individual choice or decision by the consumer is required, or which are clearly tailored to the personal needs of the consumer.
sell no more than a fixed percentage of their production and/or products directly on their holdings and/or outside their holdings to consumers for their personal needs, such percentages being fixed by Member States at not less than 10 %;
She takes care of my more personal needs.
Additional financial and personal needs of inclusive education should be compensated by the authorities.
I always considered you as a scientist, Dr. Warren... Despite your personal needs for religious claptrap.
He handles their itineraries, their personal needs.
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Alternatives:

individual needs
specific needs
personal requirements

Personal need

This phrase is correct when referring to a single need of a person.

Use "personal need" when discussing a particular requirement or desire that belongs to an individual.