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urgent

[ur-juhnt]

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adjective

compelling or requiring immediate action or attention; imperative; pressing: an urgent matter.

insistent or earnest in solicitation; importunate, as a person: an urgent pleader.

expressed with insistence, as requests or appeals: an urgent tone of voice.

Origin:
1490–1500; < Latin urgent- (stem of urgēns), present participle of urgēre to urge; see -ent

Related forms

ur·gent·ly, adverb

non·ur·gent, adjective

non·ur·gent·ly, adverb

su·per·ur·gent, adjective

su·per·ur·gent·ly, adverb

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un·ur·gent, adjective

un·ur·gent·ly, adverb

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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 extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

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People tend to tackle urgent life tasks before important financial ones.

It's not urgent for you to impress other people, beyond your dissertation committee.

So activities can be urgent and important, not urgent but important, urgent but not important and neither urgent nor important.

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People tend to tackle urgent life tasks before important financial ones.

It's not urgent for you to impress other people, beyond your dissertation committee.

So activities can be urgent and important, not urgent but important, urgent but not important and neither urgent nor important.

Conservationists said urgent action may stop the virus from spreading.

There is now an urgent need for a new look into the crystal ball of quantum physics.

Angus beef burger, curly fries, and super-thick milkshake intensifies to an urgent growl.

When disaster strikes, the need for short-term housing is immediate and urgent.

It's not urgent but needs to be done in the next few months.

So any technocratic caretaker should prepare for urgent elections that could produce a government for reform.

He said that despite a lot of important conservation work on the island, the situation for lemurs remains urgent.

These urgent signals are prompted by oxygen free radicals acting as messengers.

However, not all see it as a matter of urgent concern.

It is particularly urgent now to attend to your financial life.

And that means that when there are no urgent patients, my department has less to do.

It's warm, and it's too early in the semester for schoolwork to seem urgent.

Management systems linking government, business and civil society need urgent repair.

Technology is making it both possible and urgent to create an inventory of all species, directors say.

After years of increasingly urgent efforts beating increasingly insecure faculty.

The need to address man's impact on the environment has never been more urgent.

With more people now falling sick from malaria than ever before, the need to tackle it has never been so urgent.

It's particularly urgent since many of the temporary containment sites are nearing capacity.

There's an urgent need to agree on a strategy and get it funded and implemented.

My thesis is not new, but it seems especially urgent right now, because it flies in the face of two powerful prevailing winds.

But the need for economic reforms is becoming ever more urgent.

Recognizing the need for an urgent response, a new coalition of committed communities is coming together to take action.

There is an urgent need to better quantify the impact of projected climate change on major crop yields.

Racism is still a huge and urgent problem in this country.

More urgent infrastructure investment is being neglected.

Cactus, rock, and canyon wrens fill the early mornings with their liquid and urgent songs.

Methane has a tendency to explode, which soon made this an urgent matter.

But the sociologist in me keeps deleting all those urgent e-mails.

So sustaining the recovery means taking advantage of better conditions to do some urgent repair work.

The authors call for international authorities take urgent action to address the threat.

No wonder that political promises are not being respectedOur entire political and economic set-ups need urgent restructuring.

China has no urgent need to devalue-and pressing reasons not to do so.

The group has therefore put out more urgent pleas to the community asking for donations.

With one-fifth of the housing here categorised as slum-like, the need for restoration is urgent.

Now scientists behind the study are calling for an urgent review of global conservation strategies.

How things are done, not only nice financial figures, require urgent attention.

The wreck's salvagers say such decline makes it urgent to collect artifacts before they disappear.

Getting residents of public housing projects into work is more urgent than ever.

With jaguar numbers declining from kills and rapidly shrinking habitat, conservation is urgent.

At the firm there is little sense of a need for urgent change.

With many lakes at risk of glacial flooding still not identified, the concern about the need for funding is even more urgent.

The finding, say the researchers, warrants an urgent call for increased funding for snake research and conservation.

Economists and policymakers are turning more urgent attention to the poorest regions of the.

Urgent urination is a sudden, compelling urge to urinate, along with discomfort in your bladder.

When an alert is issued, beachside sirens go off and urgent messages are flashed.

What the world can do to speed up urgent reconstruction efforts on the island.

Finding a vaccine has become an increasingly urgent undertaking.

The military had an urgent need for weapons which would incapacitate rather than killing.

Suppose you are a cell with an urgent errand, swimming through the plumber's nightmare that is the human blood circulation system.

For conservationists, the majestic mammals have been in urgent need of protection ever since factory ships began slaughtering.

On the brain's surface a filigree of arteries feeds blood to the region under the surgeons' urgent scrutiny:.

But what seems more urgent is finding a way to meet the upcoming goal.

It's high time for greens to unite around the urgent need to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

The threat reports were more clear, urgent and persistent than was previously known.

Your envelope marked urgent fragile wraps spring in?amed by low sun, long nights.

Coe says the situation illustrates the urgent need to better manage water resources, which are limited.

There also is an urgent need to develop vaccines and drug therapy".

The worm has created an urgent need to shore up these systems before they're hit with similar attacks.

Hyde said the problem was made more urgent by changes in the welfare law.

Urgent problems, or rather problems perceived to be urgent, get attention.

First an aching back forces him to seek urgent medical treatment.

Individuals judged pleading purrs as more urgent and less pleasant than normal purrs.

Photek takes that vibe and makes it a little urgent and paranoid to boot.

Lately there has arisen frequent, persistent, urgent demands that more attention be given to moral training in all schools.

The urgent claim that the work is where you are, and not at the next job, is an important one.

It also highlights the dispiriting effects of high unemployment as something needing urgent attention.

And it renders them not merely approachable but positively delectable through its mix of technical command and urgent advocacy.

The need to realign library values is especially urgent in the realm of monographs.

The urgent task is to connect this supply of help with the demand.

Conservationists warn that unless urgent action is taken, the seabirds will be lost forever.

The usual treatment for meningitis in such urgent conditions would be intravenous antibiotics.

Hall is clearly deranged and in need of urgent medical intervention.

Ten species are included in a list of populations conservationists say require urgent action to prevent further deaths.

In that way, the primary channel stays open for urgent stuff.

China is growing, the need for more financial professionals is and will become an urgent matter.

The manufacturer could no longer ignore the urgent realities of the present.

There is also no missing the urgent desire of many here to see an ambitious government plan for boosting economic growth.

With ice tending to melt earlier in the spring, the winter hunt grows urgent.

The reason storage haven't been solved is simply because there is no urgent need.

It is even more urgent to reform the labour market and.

It is urgent that scientists closely examine the role that prenatal ultrasound may be playing in causing autism.

Hogan says such big species are poorly studied and in urgent need of protection.

Considering the urgent need for new jobs, it seems to me a smart move.

China seems to think that the euro's decline makes it less urgent to allow the yuan to appreciate.

The financial costs of not responding should be enough to encourage policy makers to take urgent action.

In many respects, it is a more acute distress cue than sadness because it usually signals a more urgent need.

There is an urgent need for patent offices to return to first principles.

Somewhere a child wails-a high, keen cry as urgent as the faces squinting into the dusk's half-light.

He says the coming arrival of their new baby makes his search for a full-time, permanent job all the more urgent.

Magome said these proposals all had merit, but they were costly and would take too much time to deal with an urgent problem.

The urgent challenge is to make sure that another hundred thousand people don't die from disease.

Without urgent action many of these gems of the forest could be lost forever.

He urged the urgent installation of a new pumping station and upgrades of the high-density sludge treatment works.

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World English Dictionary

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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Word Origin & History

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.

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