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Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
Daniel Webster

Meaning of "exigency" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EXIGENCY

exigency  [ˈɛksɪdʒənsɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EXIGENCY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Exigency is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EXIGENCY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Exigent circumstance in United States law

An exigent circumstance, in the criminal procedure law of the United States, allows law enforcement, under certain circumstances, to enter a structure without a search warrant or, if they have a "knock and announce" warrant, without knocking and waiting for refusal. It must be a situation where people are in imminent danger, evidence faces imminent destruction, or a suspect's imminent escape.

Definition of exigency in the English dictionary

The first definition of exigency in the dictionary is the state of being exigent; urgency. Other definition of exigency is an urgent demand; pressing requirement. Exigency is also an emergency.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EXIGENCY


agency
ˈeɪdʒənsɪ
astringency
əˈstrɪndʒənsɪ
cogency
ˈkəʊdʒənsɪ
contingency
kənˈtɪndʒənsɪ
counterinsurgency
ˌkaʊntərɪnˈsɜːdʒənsɪ
currency
ˈkʌrənsɪ
detergency
dɪˈtɜːdʒənsɪ
efficiency
ɪˈfɪʃənsɪ
emergency
ɪˈmɜːdʒənsɪ
frequency
ˈfriːkwənsɪ
insurgency
ɪnˈsɜːdʒənsɪ
interagency
ˌɪntərˈeɪdʒənsɪ
multiagency
ˈmʌltɪˌeɪdʒənsɪ
nonemergency
ˌnɒnɪˈmɜːdʒənsɪ
potency
ˈpəʊtənsɪ
pregnancy
ˈprɛɡnənsɪ
pungency
ˈpʌndʒənsɪ
regency
ˈriːdʒənsɪ
stringency
ˈstrɪndʒənsɪ
urgency
ˈɜːdʒənsɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EXIGENCY

exies
exigeant
exigence
exigencies
exigent
exigently
exigible
exiguity
exiguous
exiguously
exiguousness
exilable
exile
exiled
exiler
exilian
exilic
exility
eximious
eximiously

WORDS THAT END LIKE EXIGENCY

ad agency
advertising agency
aid agency
credit agency
employment agency
Environment Agency
Environmental Protection Agency
estate agency
European Space Agency
Food Standards Agency
intelligence agency
law enforcement agency
literary agency
news agency
recruitment agency
relief agency
state of emergency
tendency
the point of tangency
the Regency
travel agency

Synonyms and antonyms of exigency in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «EXIGENCY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «exigency» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of exigency

Translation of «exigency» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EXIGENCY

Find out the translation of exigency to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of exigency from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «exigency» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

紧急
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

exigencia
570 millions of speakers

English

exigency
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ज़रूरत
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الضرورة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

острая
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

exigência
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অত্যন্ত দু: খ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

exigence
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Keistimewaan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Dringlichkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

危急
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

긴급 사태
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Exigency
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhu cầu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அவர்களுக்கு நெருக்கடியை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तात्काळ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gereklilik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

esigenza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

exigency
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гостра
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

exigență
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κρίσιμη κατάσταση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dringendheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nödläge
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tvingende nødvendighet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of exigency

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EXIGENCY»

The term «exigency» is normally little used and occupies the 113.652 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EXIGENCY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «exigency» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «exigency» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about exigency

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2 QUOTES WITH «EXIGENCY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word exigency.
1
Yochai Benkler
As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
2
Daniel Webster
Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EXIGENCY»

Discover the use of exigency in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to exigency and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Time that Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans
This modality, Exigency which is rarely ever thematized as such in the history of philosophy, is exigency. So essential to philosophy, it could even be said to make it coincide with the possibility of philosophy itself. Let us attempt to inscribe this ...
Giorgio Agamben, 2005
2
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms
... a 24 x l200-foot "bon voyage deck" where passengers of the Lurline arrive and depart and their friends greet them or wave them on their way— Ships and the Sea) juncture, pass, exigency, emergency, contingency, pinch, strait, crisis denote ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1984
3
Critique of Dialectical Reason
Invention as synthetic unity - at whatever level it may be produced - is necessarily the projection of the living synthesis as an exigency in the future. The unification that causes a tool, a machine or an action to be invented is necessarily the ...
Jean-Paul Sartre, Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre, 2006
4
Higher Education Law: The Faculty
There is also case law holding that, in direct contradiction of the AAUP's view, an exigency can be limited to one department or academic unit of an institution. In 1977 the Supreme Court of Nebraska upheld faculty terminations stemming from  ...
Steven G. Poskanzer, 2003
5
Universities for Sale: Resisting Corporate Control Over ...
The extreme was to declare financial exigency, admitting that management could not balance the books through normal budgeting procedures. This was the only way to impose large-scale budget cuts involving layoffs of tenured faculty.
Neil Tudiver, 1999
6
The Law of Higher Education
Such dismissals should be distinguished from dismissals due to financial exigency or program discontinuance. For-cause dismissals—being more personal, potentially more subjective, and more debilitating to the individual concerned—may ...
William A. Kaplin, Barbara A. Lee, 2011
7
Higher Education Administration: A Guide to Legal, Ethical, ...
Courts have supported the termination of tenured faculty for a bona fide financial exigency even when there is no express grant of authority to the institution to terminate tenure faculty on this basis.39 The burden of showing that a bona fide ...
Norma M. Goonen, Rachel S. Blechman, 1999
8
Freedom and Tenure in the Academy
Their persistently phlegmatic attitude may be explained in part by the fact that the Great Depression took a much lighter toll on the senior faculty, to whom the exigency exception alone applied, than on the junior faculty, who were always ...
William W. Van Alstyne, 1993
9
Managed Professionals: Unionized Faculty and Restructuring ...
Rationales for Retrenchment, Financial Exigency In a national sample of 45 contracts negotiated in the 1 980s, 40 percent (18) utilized the term financial exigency, in their retrenchment clauses. By contrast, of 212 HECAS contracts negotiated ...
Gary Rhoades, 1998
10
The Law of Higher Education, 2 Volume Set
See, for example, Bauer v. College of Santa Fe, 78 P.3d 76 (NM. Ct. App. 2003). If the faculty contract is silent regarding financial exigency or program discontinuance, in relation to either tenured or nontenured faculty members, the institution ...
William A. Kaplin, Barbara A. Lee, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EXIGENCY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term exigency is used in the context of the following news items.
1
[The Trent] An Open Letter to Senator Ben Murray-Bruce -Onyeka …
The deceptions applied by politicians have been glorified by your approach towards the exigency of penury. You understand the mentality of ... «Nigerian Bulletin, Jul 15»
2
Monsoon rains wreak havoc across the country
... police personnel, the state disaster relief force and disaster management officials have been asked to remain prepared to meet any exigency. «Moneycontrol.com, Jul 15»
3
BRICS Summit In Russia Is Putin's Opportunity To Show It Is Not …
The contingency reserves will operate immediately to help members if they are hit by any exigency or sudden exodus of foreign capital. «International Business Times AU, Jul 15»
4
Cayuga County Legislature committee approves Cayuga …
In 2013, the college's Board of Trustees declared financial exigency in response to a $567,000 budget shortfall. Things are much less dire for ... «Auburn Citizen, Jul 15»
5
Fitch Rates Austin ISD, TX's Series 2015A ULT Rfdg Bonds 'AAA …
... and significant staffing cuts enabled by the district's declaration of financial exigency (allowable by state law) that lasted for roughly one year. «Business Wire, Jul 15»
6
Super PACs And US Campaign Fundraising: Sky Is The Limit …
Although Democrats initially opposed the decision of the Supreme Court in the Citizens United case, political exigency paved the way for ... «Eurasia Review, Jul 15»
7
'Born-Again' Fani-Kayode
... were hurriedly drafted to satisfy some political exigency during the late President Umaru Yar'Adua's administration cannot be faulted. «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
8
Haridwar on high alert as Ganga in spate
He said preparations by the government to tackle any exigency on the Char Dham route due to changing weather conditions had managed to ... «Chandigarh Tribune, Jul 15»
9
Bomb scare grounds Turkish plane in Delhi; nothing found
The aircraft was taken to the “isolation bay”, which is a remote parking area of the airport for an aircraft facing an exigency such as a bomb ... «Chandigarh Tribune, Jul 15»
10
Ram Jethmalani calls NJAC an 'evil absurdity'
What kind of exigency has arisen that such a change is demanded? Unless the state of affairs is disastrous, I predict that such adoption will not ... «Livemint, Jul 15»

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