exigency

  • 11exigency — noun 1) the exigencies of the continuing war Syn: need, demand, requirement, necessity 2) financial exigency Syn: urgency, crisis, difficulty, pressure …

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  • 12exigency — An urgency; a demand; a need; a requirement; a condition. See public exigency …

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  • 13exigency — noun a) The demands or requirements of a situation (usually plural.) b) An urgent situation. Syn: exigence, necessity, urgency See Also: exigent, exi …

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  • 14exigency — Synonyms and related words: case of need, climacteric, clutch, compulsion, constraint, contingency, convergence of events, crisis, critical juncture, critical point, crossroads, crucial period, crunch, demandingness, dire necessity, drive,… …

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  • 15exigency — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. demand, need, necessity, distress, difficulty, extremity, urgency, pressure, pinch, crisis, emergency, juncture. See circumstance. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A crisis] Syn. emergency, contingency,… …

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  • 16exigency — ex|i|gen|cy [ eksıdʒənsi, ıg zıdʒənsi ] or ex|i|gence [ eksıdʒəns ] noun count usually plural FORMAL something difficult that you must deal with as part of a situation or job …

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  • 17exigency — [[t]e̱ksɪʤ(ə)nsi[/t]] exigencies N COUNT: usu pl, usu N of n The exigencies of a situation or a job are the demands or difficulties that you have to deal with as part of it. [FORMAL] The reduction was caused by the exigencies of a wartime economy …

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  • 18exigency — n. demand; state of emergency …

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  • 19exigency — [ ɛksɪdʒ(ə)nsi, ɛgzɪ , ɪg zɪ , ɛg zɪ ] (also exigence) noun (plural exigencies) an urgent need or demand. Origin C16: from late L. exigentia, from L. exigere (see exact) …

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  • 20exigency — n. See exigence …

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