Urgency

Definition: Urgency

Urgency

Noun

1. The state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity.

2. Pressing importance requiring speedy action: "the urgency of his need".

3. An urgent situation calling for prompt action; "I'll be there, barring any urgencies"; "they departed hurriedly because of some great urgency in their affairs".

4. Insistent solicitation and entreaty; "his importunity left me no alternative but to agree".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "urgency" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Etymology: Urgency \Ur"gen*cy\, noun. [Compare to the French expression urgence.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Urgency

Haste

Noun: haste, urgency; despatch, dispatch; acceleration, spurt, spirt, forced march, rush, dash; speed, velocity; precipitancy, precipitation, precipitousness; Adjective: impetuosity; brusquerie; hurry, drive, scramble, bustle, fuss, fidget, flurry, flutter, splutter.

Importance

Gravity, seriousness, solemnity; no joke, no laughing matter; pressure, urgency, stress; matter of life and death.

Requirement

Needfulness, essentiality, necessity, indispensability, urgency.

Crosswords: Urgency

The street heats the urgency of now (1979; performing artist: Smashing Pumpkins)

In the resolute urgency of now (Tonight, Tonight; performing artist: The smashing pumpkins)

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Books

• Business Writing for Results: How to Create a Sense of Urgency and Increase to All of Your Business Communications (reference)

• Extreme Urgency (reference)

• Special Urgency Mercy-Faustina (reference)

• Telling Tales: Making Sense of Christian and Judaic Nonsense: The Urgency and Basis for Judeo-Christian Dialogue (reference)

• The Urgency of Change, (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Posters displayed on this large, well-lighted bulletin board drive home the urgency of more and better production to employees of the Columbia Steel Company, Provo, Utah. Some of the posters were supplied by war production drive headquarters, some by the. Credit: Library of Congress.

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We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1954)

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I was under great difficulties between urgency and shame.

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Health

Urgency and leaking or dribbling. (references)

Frequent urgency to urinate or a burning feeling when you urinate. (references)

Administration of rabies PEP is a medical urgency, not a medical emergency. (references)

Business

Since it typically takes ten years from the initial decision to build an airport to a fully operative facility, the issue of launching a new airport has gained urgency. (references)

At the same time Russia's economic transition, accompanying government debt and the associated wide spread plunge in living standards tends to reduce the urgency with which the issue is viewed by some on the Russian side. Limited budgetary resources weaken the effectiveness of official organs of enforcement. (references)

Economic History

Pakistan

At the end of World War II, the United Kingdom moved with increasing urgency to grant India independence. (references)

Lithuania

Subsequent economic development made it necessary to increase the urgency of handling the environmental problems. (references)

Croatia

All of these reforms are important prerequisites for Croatia's membership in the EU, so the government is working on them with a sense of urgency. (references)

Human Rights

United Kingdom

Some family members of the victims initiated a civil action in November against individuals identified as suspects in a documentary prepared by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). In December the police ombudsman for Northern Ireland released a report on the Omagh bombing, which charged that the "victims, their families, and officers of the RUC [PSNI] have been let down by defective leadership, poor judgment and a lack of urgency." The report criticized inadequate information sharing within the police and concluded that it will never be known whether the bombing could have been prevented if the police had acted differently in response to intelligence information received prior to the tragedy. (references)

Political Rights

Belarus

The 1996 Constitution also allows the President to issue decrees having the force of law in circumstances of "specific necessity and urgency," a provision that Lukashenka has interpreted broadly. (references)

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Expressions using "urgency": a matter of urgency ♦ urgency message ♦ urgency signal ♦ urinary urgency. Additional references.

Beginning with "urgency": urgency-in, urgency-whether.

Afrikaans

aandrang (congestion, insistence, pressure, rush). (various references)

Albanian

urgjencë (emergency, exigency), ngut (haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, rush), ngulmues (assiduous, insistent, persevering, persistent, pertinacious, plodder, urgent), ngulmim (fixedness, insistence, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinacity). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مطالب ملحة, ‏عجلة (expedition, haste, hurry, promptitude, quickness, wheel), ‏اإلحاحية, ‏إلحاح (importunity, insistence, instancy, objurgation, pertinacity, urge). (various references)

Bulgarian 

спешност (hastiness), неотложност (immediacy, instancy), неотложна нужда (exigency), настойчивост (importunity, insistence, obstinacy, perseverance, persistence), натиск (arm-twisting, compression, compulsion, delivery, heat, pressure, push, screw, squeeze, stress, thrust), повелителност (imperativeness). (various references)

Chinese 

迫切性 , 紧急 (Emergent, Exigent, impending). (various references)

Czech

nutnost (necessity, need, occasion, urge), neodkladnost, naléhavost (imminence, press, urge). (various references)

Danish

urge-incontinens. (various references)

Dutch

urgentie, aandrang (access, congestion, crush, impetus, impulse, insistence, pressure). (various references)

Esperanto

urĝeco, insisto (insistence, pressure), insistado (insistence, pressure). (various references)

Farsi 

فوریت (Immediacy), نیازشدید, ضرورت (Cogency, Exigency, Necessity). (various references)

Finnish

kiireellisyys (pressing nature). (various references)

French

urgence, instances, instance. (various references)

Frisian

oandriuw (access, impetus, impulse, insistence, pressure), oandrang (insistence, pressure). (various references)

German

Dringlichkeit (exigency, exiguity, immediacy, instancy, precedence, press, pressure, priority). (various references)

Greek 

επείγουσα ανάγκη (emergency, exigency), επείγο. (various references)

Hebrew 

תכיפות (frequency, succession), �"חיפות (hurry, immediacy), � חיצות (need), � חץ (accentuation, stress). (various references)

Hungarian

sürgetõ kérés, sürgõsség (immediacy), sürgőss. (various references)

Indonesian

keterdesakan (forcedness), kemendesakan, keadaan mendesak. (various references)

Irish

práinne (of urgency). (various references)

Italian

urgenza (emergency, exiguity, hurry). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

切迫 (acuteness, imminence, pressure, tension). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きっき�" (urgent, very important), きゅうせつ (ancient ideas, hurried construction, many turns, old theory, speedy laying, under pressure), きゅうはく (distress, financial difficulty, imminence), しょうび (admiration, appreciatation, emergency, imminence, praise, prizing, rose), せっぱく (acuteness, end of the year, immaculate, imminence, pressure, pure, snow-white, tension), かきゅう (emergency, junior, low class, lower grade, raising salaries). (various references)

Korean 

긴급. (various references)

Norwegian

hast (hurry). (various references)

Pig Latin

encyurgay

Portuguese

urgência (instancy), urgência, premência, necessidade urgente, instância (authoritative source, court, instance, instancy, request). (various references)

Romanian

urgenţã (hurry, instancy), stringenţã (acuteness, stringency), strãduinţã (application, exertion, striving, struggle, trouble), perseverenţã (assiduity, continuance, perseverance, tenacity). (various references)

Russian 

срочность. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

hitnost (exigency, instancy). (various references)

Spanish

urgencia (emergency, exiguity, immediacy), prisa (haste, hurry, press, rush, speed), instancia (insistence, instance, petition, pressure, request), insistencia (insistence, pressure). (various references)

Swedish

vikt (concern, consequence, gravity, heft, import, importance, magnitude, note, significance, stress, validity, weight), iver (alacrity, ambition, anxiety, application, Ardor, ardour, avidity, eagerness, excitement, fervency, fervor, fervour, forwardness, heat, willingness, zeal, zest), enträgenhet (importunity), brådskande karaktär. (various references)

Turkish

zorunluluk (burden, essentiality, exigence, exigency, imperative, incumbency, indispensability, necessity, obligation, ought), kaçınılmazlık (indispensability, inevitability, necessity), baskı (arm-twisting, coaction, coercion, compulsion, constraint, crackdown, crush, discipline, duress, edition, force, heat, impression, leverage, oppression, piezo-, press, press up, pressure, print, printing, repression, restraint, screw, squeeze, stress, suppression, the press, thrust, typographic), aciliyet, acele (bustle, discomposedly, dispatch, early, expedition, fast, flying, haste, hastily, hasty, hotfoot, hurried, hurriedly, hurry, hurry up, in a hurry, in haste, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitate, press, pressing, quick, rapid, rush, speedy, swift, too previous, urgent, whirl), ısrar (claim, insistence, persistence, pertinacity). (various references)

Ukrainian

терміновість, гостра потреба (exigency), наполегливість (aggressive, insistence, obstinacy, patience, perseverance, persistence). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự năn nỉ (supplication), sự khẩn cấp, sự gấp rút, sự cần kíp, sự cấp bách sự khẩn n� i. (various references)

instantia, instantiae. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "urgency": counterinsurgency, insurgency, turgency. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Urgency" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: urency, urgncy. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: gurney.

-3 letters: cure, curn, ecru, genu, grey, grue, gyre, rune, rung, urge.

-4 letters: cry, cue, cur, ecu, eng, erg, ern, gen, gey, gnu, gun, guy, rec, reg, rue, rug, run, rye, urn, yen.

-5 letters: en, er, ne, nu, re, un, ye.

+1 letter: turgency.

+3 letters: congruency, curtseying, insurgency, repugnancy.

+4 letters: congruently, courtesying, cryosurgeon, granulocyte, reoccupying, superagency.

+5 letters: agranulocyte, cryosurgeons, curmudgeonly, granulocytes, preoccupying, ungracefully.