Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The state or quality of requiring much effort or immediate action.
- n. A pressing or urgent situation. See Synonyms at crisis.
- n. Urgent requirements; pressing needs. Often used in the plural.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being urgent; pressing need or demand; urgency: as, the exigency of the case or of business.
- n. A pressing necessity; an urgent case; any case which demands prompt action, supply, or remedy: as, in the present exigency no time is to be lost.
- n. A state of difficulty or want; a condition of distress or need.
- n. Command; requirement: as, the exigency of a writ. Synonyms Occurrence, Occasion, Exigency, Emergency, Crisis; pressure, strait, conjuncture, pass, pinch. An occasion is an occurrence, or separate event, usually involving considerations of importance, with the observance of a degree of ceremony; an exigency is an occasion of urgency and suddenness, where something helpful needs to be done at once; an emergency is more pressing and naturally less common than an exigency; a crisis is an emergency on the outcome of which everything depends. See
event .
Wiktionary
- n. The demands or requirements of a situation (usually plural.)
- n. An urgent situation.
- n. A situation requiring extreme effort or attention.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state of being exigent; urgent or exacting want; pressing necessity or distress; need; a case demanding immediate action, supply, or remedy.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
- n. a pressing or urgent situation
Examples
“In the use of the word exigency, the full sense of its effect is perfectly understood.”
“However, in line with AAUP’s guidelines and outlined in the Tulane Faculty Handbook, termination of tenure due to financial exigency is “reviewed by the faculty of the division in which they hold appointment, then by the Senate Committee on Faculty Tenure, Freedom and Responsibility, with ultimate review of all controverted issues by the Tulane Board of Administrators.””
“But again, the question is not whether exigency was an important variable to the wartime Court: Of course it was.”
“I travel with a teeny tiny jackknife/scissors combo for just that kind of exigency, which I would like to have you know was CONFISCATED JUST TODAY AT CHICAGO O'HARE AIRPORT.”
“Another short-term solution to postal woes may be to invoke the "exigency" clause in postal law that would permit an increase in postage above the rate of inflation because of”
“Now that the school board voted for financial exigency, our superintendent has the power to ignore our contracts.”
The Wall Street Journal: Academic Success Versus High Poverty
“Last week, the board of Austin Independent School District declared a "financial exigency," a move that will allow it to lay off more than 1,000 teachers.”
The Wall Street Journal: Texans Duel Over Millions in School Funding
“The ongoing revolutions in Egypt, Tunisia and elsewhere are a stark reminder of the exigency involved.”
“Over our country's several hundred years, political exigency--more often than preparedness and re-arming--has dictated military budget austerity.”
Forbes: China's Military Buildup Won't Stop The Defense Bear
“If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times.”
West Virginian Democrats shocked at War on Coal. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
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