What does URGENCY mean?
Definitions for URGENCY
ˈɜr dʒən siur·gen·cy
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Princeton's WordNet
urgencynoun
the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity
urgencynoun
pressing importance requiring speedy action
"the urgency of his need"
urgencynoun
an urgent situation calling for prompt action
"I'll be there, barring any urgencies"; "they departed hurriedly because of some great urgency in their affairs"
importunity, urgency, urgingnoun
insistent solicitation and entreaty
"his importunity left me no alternative but to agree"
Wiktionary
urgencynoun
The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Urgencynoun
Pressure of difficulty or necessity.
Etymology: from urgent.
Being for some hours extremely pressed by the necessities of nature, I was under great difficulties between urgency and shame. Gulliver’s Travels.
ChatGPT
urgency
Urgency refers to the state of requiring immediate attention or swift action, usually because of some form of pressing need or impending deadline. It conveys a sense of importance and priority.
Webster Dictionary
Urgencynoun
the quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion
Wikidata
Urgency
Urgency is the fourth album by Bellingham, Washington indie rock band The Pale Pacific.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of URGENCY in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of URGENCY in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of URGENCY in a Sentence
Her death should be a wake-up call that we must act in urgency, ...It is immoral for us to walk away and take a month off when ...our neighbors are dying and losing loved ones.
And now the humanitarian phase, the urgency of providing shelter, psychosocial care, food, schooling, and a sense of the future for these people, that’s our obligation now.
So with more cases mounting around the world, it makes sense to take care of the health care system, that's what the Israelis are going to do, and it's clear to me that's what we're going to do. We're just going to take it at an unnecessary, unacceptably long period of time to get to the point where we get a fourth dose. And I want to see a sense of urgency. Even more than urgency, I want to see a sense of nimbleness.
Each film has suggested a slightly different style and tone, this one, I think, is much more modern, it's edgier, the crisis that we are dealing with is very real and present and something that people talk about, and it suggests a kind of an urgency and a psychological focus that creates another type of tension. It's a bit more modern cinematically in its approach.
There’s no question that as a country we need to look at the resilience of our infrastructure. And we need to do that with a much greater sense of urgency, I think, than we have ever seen before.
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