want (as in need or require) v.t.: desiderate

Keynes was quite dismissive of governments and government-controlled central banks from this point of view. He argued that “it is natural, after what we have experienced, that prudent people should desiderate a standard of value which is independent of finance ministers and state banks.” (Philip Arestis, The Independence of Central Banks: A Nonconventional Perspective, Journal of Economic Issues, 03/1/1995, p. 161.)

This word. when used in the above sense, can also be a synonym for desire, yearn, wish (for) or long (for).