Meaning of exigency | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The demands or requirements of a situation.
   countable, in-plural, uncountable
2. The demands or requirements of a situation
3. An urgent situation, one requiring extreme effort or attention.
   countable, uncountable
4. A pressing or urgent situation: "We were caught in a wartime exigency that was beyond any humane, any rational, resistance" (John Kenneth Galbraith).
5. An urgent situation, one requiring extreme effort or attention
6. An urgent requirement; a pressing need: "distracted by the exigencies of running a business" (Richard Curtis).
7. ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “exigency”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
8. the state of being exigent; urgency
9. (often plural) an urgent demand; pressing requirement
   often plural
10. an emergency
11. exigent state or character; urgency.
12. Usu., exigencies. the need, demand, or requirement intrinsic to a circumstance, condition, etc: the exigencies of city life.
13. a case or situation which demands prompt action or remedy; emergency or plight.
14. need, demand, requirement, necessity, constraint, wont The reduction was caused by the exigencies of a wartime economy.
15. urgency, pressure, difficulty, emergency, crisis, stress, distress, necessity, constraint, hardship, acuteness, demandingness, criticalness, imperativeness, needfulness, pressingness Financial exigency forced him to sell up his business.

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Examples

“My business is with you, and you only. You should not have⟳ undertaken your office, unless prepared for its various exigencies.”

“No ordinary man could have⟳ escaped those frightful claws when Numa sprang from so short a distance, but Tarzan was no ordinary man. From earliest childhood his muscles had been trained by the fierce exigencies of his existence to act with the rapidity of thought.”

“[...] but these details I am compelled by exigencies of space to hold⟳ over until next month.”

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