urgent

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

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urgent (ˈɜːdʒənt)

—*adj*
1.	requiring or compelling speedy action or attention: the matter is urgent; an urgent message
2.	earnest and persistent

[C15: via French from Latin urgent-, urgens, present participle of urgēre to urge]

urgency

—n

'urgently

—*adv*

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urgent

1456, from M.Fr. urgent "pressing, impelling" (14c.), from L. urgentem (nom. urgens), prp. of urgere "to press hard, urge" (see urge). Urgency is from 1540.

Example sentences

The word urgent and the feeling of urgency compel one to immediate attention or action.

The government is juggling a sizable external debt against the urgent need for expanded public investment.

The more utterly the protagonist is crushed, the more urgent and forceful the message.

It also seems that they collectively feel that the work they are doing is so urgent that it justifies shortcuts.

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