Exigency
noun
An urgent need or demand that requires immediate action.
In the exigency of a situation, firefighters have to act quickly to save lives.
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Formal
noun
The requirement or pressure caused by circumstances.
The court will determine the exigency of the matter.
Often appears as...
- exigency of the situation
- under an exigency
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Formal
Technical
noun
The state of being urgent or needing immediate attention.
The patient's exigency was addressed with immediate surgery.
Often appears as...
- address the exigency
- recognize the exigency
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Formal
Technical
noun
An urgent need or demand that requires immediate action.
In the exigency of a situation, firefighters have to act quickly to save lives.
Usage tips
Formal
noun
The requirement or pressure caused by circumstances.
The court will determine the exigency of the matter.
Often appears as...
- exigency of the situation
- under an exigency
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
noun
The state of being urgent or needing immediate attention.
The patient's exigency was addressed with immediate surgery.
Often appears as...
- address the exigency
- recognize the exigency
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Situational Urgency
Use 'exigency' to describe scenarios where quick decisions or responses are critical.
During the flood, the exigency of evacuating residents was clear.
Pro Tip 2/3Immediacy Emphasis
'Exigency' conveys an element of time sensitivity, stressing the importance of not delaying action.
The exigency of fixing the breach in the dam required swift action.
Pro Tip 3/3High Stakes
The term often implies that consequences are significant if immediate action isn't taken.
The hospital faced an exigency when the power went out.
Pro Tip 1/3Situational Urgency
Use 'exigency' to describe scenarios where quick decisions or responses are critical.
During the flood, the exigency of evacuating residents was clear.
Pro Tip 2/3Immediacy Emphasis
'Exigency' conveys an element of time sensitivity, stressing the importance of not delaying action.
The exigency of fixing the breach in the dam required swift action.
Pro Tip 3/3High Stakes
The term often implies that consequences are significant if immediate action isn't taken.
The hospital faced an exigency when the power went out.
Pro Tip 1/3Situational Urgency
Use 'exigency' to describe scenarios where quick decisions or responses are critical.
During the flood, the exigency of evacuating residents was clear.
Pro Tip 2/3Immediacy Emphasis
'Exigency' conveys an element of time sensitivity, stressing the importance of not delaying action.
The exigency of fixing the breach in the dam required swift action.
Pro Tip 3/3High Stakes
The term often implies that consequences are significant if immediate action isn't taken.
The hospital faced an exigency when the power went out.
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normal fiscal year we'd have one budget and and I say we because this is the result of a highly complex machinery there's a metaphor as well a highly complex doublin government machinery that's in play all the time and in a normal year we'd have one budget but this year given the deep exigencies that
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normal fiscal year we'd have one budget and and I say we because this is the result of a highly complex machinery there's a metaphor as well a highly complex doublin government machinery that's in play all the time and in a normal year we'd have one budget but this year given the deep exigencies that
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Paul Rand
American Designer
Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs, and geometrics; which abstracts, transforms, translates, rotates, dilates, repeats, mirrors, groups, and regroups, is not good design if it is irrelevant.
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Terry Glavin
Canadian Author
Afghans long ago resigned themselves to this sort of thing. Compromises must be made. Deals with the devil are better than ceaseless butchery. In the exigencies of post-conflict bygones, against the threat of collapse into more terrible bloodletting, the ugliness of realpolitik is the lesser evil.
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Edgard Varese
American Composer
I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
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Yochai Benkler
Israeli Educator
As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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Sigmund Freud
Austrian Psychologist
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.
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James Monroe
American President
To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.
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Daniel Webster
American Statesman
Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
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Wendell Phillips
American Activist
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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Paul Rand
American Designer
Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs, and geometrics; which abstracts, transforms, translates, rotates, dilates, repeats, mirrors, groups, and regroups, is not good design if it is irrelevant.
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Terry Glavin
Canadian Author
Afghans long ago resigned themselves to this sort of thing. Compromises must be made. Deals with the devil are better than ceaseless butchery. In the exigencies of post-conflict bygones, against the threat of collapse into more terrible bloodletting, the ugliness of realpolitik is the lesser evil.
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Edgard Varese
American Composer
I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
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Yochai Benkler
Israeli Educator
As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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Sigmund Freud
Austrian Psychologist
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.
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James Monroe
American President
To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.
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Daniel Webster
American Statesman
Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
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Wendell Phillips
American Activist
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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