Exigency
['eksɪdʒ(ə)nsɪ;'egzɪ-;ɪg'zɪ-;eg'zɪ-] or ['ɛksədʒən
Definition
(noun.) a pressing or urgent situation; 'the health-care exigency'.
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Definition
(n.) The state of being exigent; urgent or exacting want; pressing necessity or distress; need; a case demanding immediate action, supply, or remedy; as, an unforeseen exigency.
Checker: Mitchell
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Demand, urgency, necessity, need, want, requirement.[2]. Emergency, crisis, strait, conjuncture, quandary, pass, pinch, nonplus, critical situation, pressing necessity.
Checker: Nellie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Urgency, pressure, emergency, conjuncture, crisis
ANT:Provision, preparation, supply, rule, course
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Examples
- In this exigency, government can have no other resource but in borrowing. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The tax was to be paid but once, in order to relieve the state in a particular exigency. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- If, upon any public exigency, it should become necessary to export the coin, the greater part of it would soon return again, of its own accord. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Another listener and observer there was; one who, detained by some exigency of his profession, had come in late to dinner. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- To relieve the present exigency, is always the object which principally interests those immediately concerned in the administration of public affairs. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Special contrivances, wonderful in their operation, were invented to meet exigencies and emergencies. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In such a state of things, few people would be able, and nobody would be willing to lend their money to government on extraordinary exigencies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In practice, there was employed such a number of perforating machines as the exigencies of business demanded. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I should hate to do it, replied Shirley, but I think I could do it, if goaded by certain exigencies which I can imagine. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It may be, occasionally, that the exigencies of the occasion require the work of a performing horse, dog, or other animal. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The sovereign feels that he must provide for such exigencies by saving, because he foresees the absolute impossibility of borrowing. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- To be used intelligently, existing practices, however authorized they may be, have to be adapted to the exigencies of particular cases. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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