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Definition of exigency in English: exigencynounPlural exigencies ˈɛɡzɪdʒ(ə)nsiɛɡˈzɪdʒ(ə)nsiˈɛksɪdʒ(ə)nsiɪɡˈzɪdʒ(ə)nsi An urgent need or demand. 紧急的需要;紧急的要求 women worked long hours when the exigencies of the family economy demanded it 家庭经济紧迫时,妇女就得加班加点工作。 mass noun he put financial exigency before personal sentiment 他把经济上的迫切需要看得比个人情绪更重。 Example sentencesExamples - These standards call for meaningful participation by a faculty body in deciding whether a financial exigency exists or is imminent.
- The exigencies of journalism demand instant appraisals and on-the-spot verdicts.
- Is it because the exigencies of politics demand the assistance of the police?
- Financial exigency, familial, societal and cultural pressures, and educational deficits force many minority law students to make hard choices about whether they should study law.
- Modernizing or adapting the European welfare state to the exigencies of external competition and the pressures of a changing industrial society at home is a much taller order.
- They were the first two women in Australia to have actual careers in physics and it was because wartime exigencies required that talented young women be hired.
- The innovative readings in this essay arise from the theoretical exigency I mentioned as requisite these days.
- But, resettlement is probably a much-needed exigency in cases like the creation of inviolate areas to preserve habitats and wildlife, which in turn act as flagship species for the conservation of the eco-system.
- Virtually all of the Administration's actions may well be held to be entirely constitutional, depending on the exigency of the circumstances.
- But the question of the foundation of value has simply been displaced: now it is my job that, in my active engagement, takes on the unquestioned exigency of a demand or value.
- Nobody likes to be told that the exigencies of life require them to find a sudden thousand quid, but that's not the whole of it.
- In truth, the exemption of fishing craft is essentially an act of grace, and not a matter of right, and it is extended or denied as the exigency is believed to demand.
- Financial exigency could thus join seamlessly with reorganization to become an everyday occurrence.
- The investigating committee concluded that the administration had acted without demonstrating financial exigency that mandated the termination of continuing appointments.
- Emergency powers are supposed to apply only while the exigency persists.
- To practice is to draw on our creative energies and to respond to situational exigencies with spontaneous acts of mindful and creative expression.
- Any proceedings against the press should be ‘confined, under the pressure of extreme necessity, to the occasional exigency of some particular case’.
- Look, given the exigency of the situation, my requirements must be fulfilled with utmost haste.
- In others, the judges have been prepared to be flexible to meet the exigencies of the situation.
- Leading advocates at times dropped it as they moved up, others picked it up and dropped it as political exigencies demanded.
Synonyms need, demand, requirement, want necessity, essential, requisite urgency, emergency, extremity, crisis, difficulty, pressure
OriginLate 16th century: from late Latin exigentia, from Latin exigere 'enforce' (see exact). Definition of exigency in US English: exigencynoun An urgent need or demand. 紧急的需要;紧急的要求 women worked long hours when the exigencies of the family economy demanded it 家庭经济紧迫时,妇女就得加班加点工作。 he put financial exigency before personal sentiment 他把经济上的迫切需要看得比个人情绪更重。 Example sentencesExamples - Look, given the exigency of the situation, my requirements must be fulfilled with utmost haste.
- Is it because the exigencies of politics demand the assistance of the police?
- The exigencies of journalism demand instant appraisals and on-the-spot verdicts.
- To practice is to draw on our creative energies and to respond to situational exigencies with spontaneous acts of mindful and creative expression.
- Financial exigency, familial, societal and cultural pressures, and educational deficits force many minority law students to make hard choices about whether they should study law.
- Nobody likes to be told that the exigencies of life require them to find a sudden thousand quid, but that's not the whole of it.
- In truth, the exemption of fishing craft is essentially an act of grace, and not a matter of right, and it is extended or denied as the exigency is believed to demand.
- The innovative readings in this essay arise from the theoretical exigency I mentioned as requisite these days.
- They were the first two women in Australia to have actual careers in physics and it was because wartime exigencies required that talented young women be hired.
- Any proceedings against the press should be ‘confined, under the pressure of extreme necessity, to the occasional exigency of some particular case’.
- Financial exigency could thus join seamlessly with reorganization to become an everyday occurrence.
- Leading advocates at times dropped it as they moved up, others picked it up and dropped it as political exigencies demanded.
- Emergency powers are supposed to apply only while the exigency persists.
- But, resettlement is probably a much-needed exigency in cases like the creation of inviolate areas to preserve habitats and wildlife, which in turn act as flagship species for the conservation of the eco-system.
- In others, the judges have been prepared to be flexible to meet the exigencies of the situation.
- But the question of the foundation of value has simply been displaced: now it is my job that, in my active engagement, takes on the unquestioned exigency of a demand or value.
- Modernizing or adapting the European welfare state to the exigencies of external competition and the pressures of a changing industrial society at home is a much taller order.
- Virtually all of the Administration's actions may well be held to be entirely constitutional, depending on the exigency of the circumstances.
- These standards call for meaningful participation by a faculty body in deciding whether a financial exigency exists or is imminent.
- The investigating committee concluded that the administration had acted without demonstrating financial exigency that mandated the termination of continuing appointments.
Synonyms need, demand, requirement, want urgency, emergency, extremity, crisis, difficulty, pressure
OriginLate 16th century: from late Latin exigentia, from Latin exigere ‘enforce’ (see exact). |