exigency
exigence
[noun]
Synonyms: need, constraint, demand, necessity, requirement

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Related Idioms: matter of life and death
Related Words: difficulty, hardship, rigor, vicissitude, dilemma, fix, jam, pickle, scrape, pressure, urgency, demand, imperativeness, insistence, requirement, coercion, compulsion, constraint, duress

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exigency noun

1. a need or demand that you must deal with immediately Synonym : demand
   • ● the exigencies of war
   • ● The political exigencies facing both leaders mean they must resume talks if violence is to be avoided.
   • ● He put financial exigency before personal sentiment.
   Word Originlate 16th cent.: from late Latin exigentia, from Latin exigere ‘enforce’, from ex- ‘thoroughly’ + agere ‘perform’.

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