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- Dictionaryexigency/ˈɛksɪdʒ(ə)nsi/
noun
- 1. an urgent need or demand: "women worked long hours when the exigencies of the family economy demanded it" Similar
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The meaning of EXIGENCY is that which is required in a particular situation —usually used in plural. How to use exigency in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Exigency.
EXIGENCY definition: 1. the difficulties of a situation, especially one that causes urgent demands: 2. the difficulties…. Learn more.
An emergency situation, or exigency, is urgent and demands immediate action. Our lives are filled with exigencies, both large and small, from a child stuck in a tree to lightning striking your house to catastrophic river flooding. Each is an exigency — it's all a matter of perspective.
exigent state or character; urgency. Usually exigencies. the need, demand, or requirement intrinsic to a circumstance, condition, etc.: the exigencies of city life. a case or situation that demands prompt action or remedy; emergency: He promised help in any exigency.
n. pl. ex·i·gen·cies. 1. A pressing or urgent situation: "We were caught in a wartime exigency that was beyond any humane, any rational, resistance" (John Kenneth Galbraith). 2. An urgent requirement; a pressing need: "distracted by the exigencies of running a business" (Richard Curtis).
EXIGENCY meaning: 1. the difficulties of a situation, especially one that causes urgent demands: 2. the difficulties…. Learn more.
noun. /ˈeksɪdʒənsi/, /ɪɡˈzɪdʒənsi/ [countable, usually plural, uncountable] (plural exigencies) (formal) a need or demand that you must deal with immediately synonym demand. the exigencies of war. The political exigencies facing both leaders mean they must resume talks if violence is to be avoided.
3 meanings: 1. the state of being exigent; urgency 2. an urgent demand; pressing requirement 3. an emergency.... Click for more definitions.
The earliest known use of the noun exigency is in the late 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for exigency is from 1588, in the writing of William Lambarde, antiquary and lawyer. exigency is a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin exigentia.
exigent state or character; urgency. Usually, exigencies. the need, demand, or requirement intrinsic to a circumstance, condition, etc.: the exigencies of city life. a case or situation that demands prompt action or remedy; emergency: He promised help in any exigency. Also, ex′i•gence. Medieval Latin exigentia. See exigent, - ency. 1575–85.
