Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: urgency
IPA transcription: ['ɝdʒənsi]
Pronunciations of urgency
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: urgency
    Meaning: the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity
  • Synonyms: urgency
    Meaning: pressing importance requiring speedy action; "the urgency of his need"
Usage examples
  • It's a matter of immediate urgency
  • Yet the Turkish, like the Arab, conquest wrought one important effect, the influence of which time has strengthened so that it is only second to that in the urgency of its bearing upon existing conditions.
  • On replying in the affirmative, he was informed that his immediate attendance was required in a case of urgency, and all his questions as to the nature of the patient's malady were disposed of in a very unceremonious manner.
  • These are to be seen in every direction, picturesque, many-gabled, with heavy stone carvings of coats of arms for heraldic ornament; belonging to decayed families, from whose ancestral lands field after field has been shorn away, by the urgency of rich manufacturers pressing hard upon necessity.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Satoru Iwata, License CC BY-SA 4.0