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Definition: Urging |
UrgingNoun1. A verbalization that encourages you to attempt something; "the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves". 2. The act of earnestly supporting or encouraging. 3. 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 "urging" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: UrgingSynonyms: goad (n), goading (n), importunity (n), prod (n), prodding (n), spur (n), spurring (n), urgency (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Urging |
| English words defined with "urging": abetment ♦ blandishment, blarney ♦ cajole, coax ♦ instigation, inveigle ♦ lashing ♦ Overpressure ♦ palaver ♦ Remonstrant ♦ Stringendo, sweet-talk ♦ wheedle, wheedling. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "urging": Fly a Kite ♦ National Partnership for Women and Families ♦ Persuasive Communication. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | World as judge urging Vietnamese to release POWs. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | This poster urging tool conservation features the "Tokyo Kid," a figure made familiar to the employees of Douglas Aircraft in Santa Monica, California in many of the plant posters. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
John Kenneth Galbraith | The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. |
Martin Luther | Teaching is of more importance than urging. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | The urging of that word judgment hath bred a kind of remorse in me. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Ukrainian authorities are aware of this need and are urging new investments into the Ukrainian telecom industry. (references) | |
The Central Bank is urging a reduced interest rate to facilitate economic growth and encourage borrowers in the money market to bargain for lower rates. (references) | ||
The German insurers also favor the mail order and Internet business for its cost-saving effects and are urging the government to provide a legal framework. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Rwanda | However, by year's end, the Government's strategy had changed to one of urging the groups to register with the Ministry of Justice to regularize their status. (references) |
China | In January 119 dissidents sent an open letter urging the Government to release jailed colleagues ahead of the Lunar New Year festival, stating that it would help Beijing's bid for the 2008 Olympic Games. (references) | |
Belarus | In February the B-TR aired a documentary entitled "Dushekhvaty" (Soul Snatchers), which alleged that Catholic communities were eroding citizens' national-religious consciousness by urging them to deny the faith of their ancestors. (references) | |
Economic History | Indonesia | U.S. firms are urging the GOI to eliminate the condition as a means to further improve Indonesia's investment climate. (references) |
Chile | The financial sector is also urging the new government to create specialized banks for different activities, such as for leasing. (references) | |
Morocco | It supports the search for peace in the Middle East, encouraging Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and urging moderation on both sides. (references) | |
Human Rights | Israel and the occupied territories | Additionally, some mid-level Fatah leaders made public statements urging Palestinians to continue all aspects of the Intifada, including violent opposition. (references) |
El Salvador | In November 2000, the Legislative Assembly passed a law, at the Attorney General's urging, that created an expedited process for dismissing employees of the Attorney General's office. (references) | |
Chad | At the end of 1999, the Collective of Human Rights Associations, consisting of five human rights organizations, issued a declaration urging the Government to respect human rights; there was no government response. (references) | |
Minorities | Hungary | The Roma Civic Rights Foundation visits and reports on cases of forced eviction, and works on urging local governments to provide temporary shelters. (references) |
Russia | The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) sent letters to Krasnoyarsk leaders, including Governor Aleksandr Lebed, urging swift investigation and a clear stand against anti-Semitism. (references) | |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Also in May, leaflets were distributed in Doboj, in the RS, calling on Muslims to leave the city and urging Serbs to protest against the reconstruction of the city's mosque. (references) | |
Political Economy | UKRAINE | The United States is urging Ukraine to enact licensing legislation for optical media production. (references) |
Sri Lanka | At the urging of both sides, the Norwegian Government has undertaken efforts to facilitate peace talks. (references) | |
PARAGUAY | The Ministry of Finance, at the urging of the IMF, is currently studying the elimination of a variety of tax breaks, including Law 60/90, to help balance the budget. (references) | |
Political Rights | Morocco | In August 1997 at the urging of then-King Hassan II, Parliament created a 325-seat lower house, the Chamber of Representatives, to be filled by direct elections, and a 270-seat upper house, the Chamber of Deputies, whose members would be elected by various directly elected professional and regional councils. (references) |
Worker Rights | Kuwait | At the ILO's urging, the Government agreed to ratify the remaining two of eight conventions from the ILO's Declaration of Basic Rights at Work. (references) |
Armenia | An orphanage run by a religious group reports that older girls have been approached by relatives urging them to "earn their share" for the family by engaging in prostitution. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | The National Security Agency has launched a bunch of ads urging military personnel to protect national secrets during this time of terrorist crisis. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | The very forbearance to press prosecutions was misinterpreted into a fear of urging the execution of the laws, and associations of men began to denounce threats against the officers employed. |
Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | Petitions poured in upon Congress urging the imposition of discriminating duties that should encourage the production of needed things at home. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Tonight, I'm especially pleased to join with the Speaker and the Senate majority leader in urging the Congress to enact this plan by Easter. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Urging" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 96.12% of the time. "Urging" is used about 669 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 96.12% | 643 | 10,143 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.28% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.3% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.3% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 669 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "urging"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 敦促 (urge, Urged). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | exhortant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | drängend (elbowing, pressing, thronging, thrusting, urgent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | προτροπή (exhortation, urge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | זרוז (hurry up, speeding up, spurring), "מרצ" (encouragement, stimulation), "אצ" (acceleration, exhortation, hurrying, pressing), "רבון (goad, goading, spurring, sting), סר"וב (anxiety, pressing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | dorongan (heave, impetus, inducement, instigation, propulsion, push, pushing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 鞭' (encouragement, enthusiasm), 策励 (whipping), 手詰め (pressing), 御鞭' (encouragement, enthusiasm), 勧説 (persuasion), "鞭' (encouragement, enthusiasm), 切言 (declaration, persuasion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | べ"たつ (encouragement, enthusiasm), さくれい (model of writing, whipping), せつ'" (curtailment, declaration, economy, persuasion, retrenchment, snow field), か"ぜい (box and cover, customs, damage from cold weather, deep emotion, drought damage, drought disaster, duty, irrigation, outside a building, persuasion, strong feelings, tariff), "べ"たつ (encouragement, enthusiasm), てづめ (pressing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 촉구. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | lorgaghey (drive, drive along). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ingurgay urgencija. (various references) uppmanande. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | hortati, hortatus, hortatusque. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "urging": urgingly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "urging": gurging, overurging, purging, resurging, scourging, splurging, surging, upsurging. (additional references) | |
Words containing "urging": purgings. (additional references) | |
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"Urging" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rugging, ruging, ubring, ugging, Ugrin, urting. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "urging" (pronounced er"jing) |
| 4 | er" j i ng | converging, diverging, emerging, merging, purging, resurging, splurging, surging, verging. |
| 3 | -j i ng | acknowledging, aging, alleging, arbitraging, arranging, avenging, averaging, besieging, bridging, bulging, challenging, changing, charging, cringing, damaging, discharging, discouraging, disengaging, dislodging, disparaging, divulging, dodging, dredging, edging, encouraging, engaging, enlarging, enraging, exchanging, fledging, foraging, forging, fudging, gauging, gouging, grudging, hedging, hemorrhaging, imaging, indulging, infringing, judging, leveraging, lodging, lounging, lunging, managing, messaging, micromanaging, mischarging, mismanaging, mortgaging, nudging, obliging, outraging, overcharging, packaging, paging, pillaging, pledging, plunging, presaging, raging, rampaging, ranging, ravaging, rearranging, recharging, repackaging, rummaging, salvaging, savaging, scavenging, scrounging, shortchanging, staging, trudging, unchanging, waging. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-g-i-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: ruing, unrig. | |
-2 letters: girn, grig, grin, ring, ruin, rung. | |
-3 letters: gig, gin, gnu, gun, rig, rin, rug, run, urn. | |
-4 letters: in, nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-g-i-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: arguing, gurging, purging, roguing, rouging, rugging, surging. | |
+2 letters: auguring, burgling, drudging, drugging, figuring, frugging, grouping, grousing, grouting, grubbing, grudging, grueling, gruffing, grumping, grungier, grunting, guarding, gurgling, purgings, refuging, regluing, rogueing, roughing, sugaring, trudging, unrigged, urgingly. | |
+3 letters: argufying, buggering, gesturing, grouching, grounding, groupings, gruelings, gruelling, grumbling, grungiest, gruntling, grutching, guttering, hungering, outraging, ragouting, rearguing, regauging, rejudging, repugning, resurging, rummaging, scourging, scrouging, shrugging, splurging, ungirding, unrigging, upgirding, upgrading, upgrowing, upsurging. | |
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