exigent
Americanadjective
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requiring immediate action or aid; urgent; pressing.
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requiring a great deal, or more than is reasonable.
adjective
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urgent; pressing
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exacting; demanding
Other Word Forms
- exigently adverb
- nonexigent adjective
- nonexigently adverb
- unexigent adjective
- unexigently adverb
Etymology
Origin of exigent
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin exigent- (stem of exigēns ) (present participle of exigere to drive out, demand), equivalent to ex- ex- 1 + -ig- (combining form of agere to drive) + -ent- -ent
Example Sentences
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After the ruling, ICE released guidance directing agents to generally give migrants slated for removal to a third country “at least 24 hours” notice, but as little as six hours in “exigent circumstances.”
From Los Angeles Times
He also said that exigent circumstances — protests that sprang up against immigration raids — shifted conditions at the facility, thus impacting clients’ access to attorneys.
From Los Angeles Times
He also said that exigent circumstances — protests that sprang up against immigration raids — shifted conditions at facility, thus impacting clients’ access to attorneys.
From Los Angeles Times
“Some people don’t want to have to get a long-term place,” she says, and signing a lease doesn’t allow any wiggle room for exigent circumstances.
From Salon
“Even a lay person has the common sense to see exigent circumstances exist to enter these homes,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times
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