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urgency

English

  1. 🔊 pressing importance requiring speedy action
    “the urgency of his need”
  2. 🔊 an urgent situation calling for prompt action
    “I'll be there, barring any urgencies”
  3. 🔊 the state of being urgent
  4. 🔊 insistent solicitation and entreaty
    “his importunity left me no alternative but to agree”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 premia urgency
  2. 🔊 urgencia urgency
  3. 🔊 premura urgency, hurry
  4. 🔊 apuro urgency, rush, hurry

Similar words

importunity urging antecedence antecedency anteposition anteriority blandishment buttonholing cajolement cajolery case of need clutch coaxing compulsion constraint crisis crunch demandingness dire necessity dominion drive dunning emergency exigence