My business is with you, and you only. You should not have undertaken your office, unless prepared for its various exigencies.
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Exigency
//ˈɛksɪd͡ʒənsi//
Synonyms for "exigency" (72 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (36)
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Translations
12 translations across 5 languages.
German
4 entries- Anforderungen noun (demands or requirements of a situation)
- Erfordernisse noun (demands or requirements of a situation)
- Notlage noun (urgent situation)
- Zwangslage noun (urgent situation)
Polish
2 entries- krytyczna sytuacja noun (urgent situation)
- pilna potrzeba noun (demands or requirements of a situation)
Russian
1 entries- срочность noun (urgent situation)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- hitnost noun (urgent situation)
- hitnoća noun (urgent situation)
- urgencija noun (urgent situation)
Ukrainian
2 entries- вимога noun (demands or requirements of a situation)
- потреба noun (demands or requirements of a situation)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
No ordinary man could have escaped those frightful claws when Numa sprang from so short a distance, but Tarzan was no ordinary man. From earliest childhood his muscles had been trained by the fierce exigencies of his existence to act with the rapidity of thought.
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[...] but these details I am compelled by exigencies of space to hold over until next month.
Source: wiktionary
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