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exigency

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ex·i·gen·cy  (ks-jn-s, g-zjn-)
n. pl. ex·i·gen·cies
1. The state or quality of requiring much effort or immediate action.
2. A pressing or urgent situation. See Synonyms at crisis.
3. Urgent requirements; pressing needs. Often used in the plural.
exigency
Noun
pl -gencies Formal
1. an urgent demand or need
2. an emergency [Latin exigere to require]
exigent adj
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.exigency - a pressing or urgent situation; "the health-care exigency"
crisis - an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty; "they went bankrupt during the economic crisis"
2.exigencyexigency - a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action; "he never knew what to do in an emergency"
emergency, pinch
crisis - a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something; "after the crisis the patient either dies or gets better"


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I had hired small lodgings, which I contrived to pay for out of a slender fund--the accumulated savings of my Eton pocket-money; for as it had ever been abhorrent to my nature to ask pecuniary assistance, I had early acquired habits of self-denying economy; husbanding my monthly allowance with anxious care, in order to obviate the danger of being forced, in some moment of future exigency, to beg additional aid.
The Professor by Bronte, Charlotte View in context
At last, in the exigency to which I was reduced, I proposed to Toby that he should endeavour to go round to Nukuheva, and if he could not succeed in returning to the valley by water, in one of the boats of the squadron, and taking me off, he might at least procure me some proper medicines, and effect his return overland.
Typee by Melville, Herman View in context
(at least visibly) interfere with the plans of their married children; and the difficulty of adjusting this respect for May's independence with the exigency of Mr.
The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith View in context
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