urgent
Origin of urgent
1Other words for urgent
Other words from urgent
- ur·gent·ly, adverb
- non·ur·gent, adjective
- su·per·ur·gent, adjective
- un·ur·gent, adjective
Words Nearby urgent
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How to use urgent in a sentence
There are many problems plaguing California at the moment that demand urgent attention.
Sacramento Report: Bipartisan Support for a Special Session | Sara Libby | September 11, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoNothing is that urgent, and if it is, your team will call or text you.
17 extremely useful productivity tips from this year’s 40 Under 40 | Maria Aspan | September 6, 2020 | FortuneThe more obvious something seems, the more urgent the need to question it.
The business advice Socrates would give if he wrote a management book today | jakemeth | August 25, 2020 | FortuneSustainability isn’t just an urgent ethical issue — it sells.
Sky News, Hearst UK and RT are Digiday Media Awards Europe winners | Digiday Awards | August 21, 2020 | Digiday“Agencies recognize that there’s an urgent need to envision themselves as a group that values diversity but they’re not there yet,” said Nandi Welch, co-founder and head of business strategy for the brand consultancy Rupture.
‘Urgent need’: How agencies are deploying diversity and inclusion execs, forming new councils to create more equitable companies | Kristina Monllos | August 21, 2020 | Digiday
The need for increased community policing is more urgent than ever before.
“The recent earthquakes make this project urgent,” Franceschini told reporters.
Then, depending on how urgent I think it is to get it, sometimes I have to go back home and drop it off.
#Setinthestreet: Your Street Corner Is Their Art Project | James Joiner | December 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIs there anyone who thinks the urgent problem we need to solve in Washington, D.C. is how to allow more spending on campaigns?
We need to strike a balance between creating false alarms and letting any urgent medical matters fall through the cracks.
They are very urgent questions; our sons and daughters will have to begin to deal with them from the moment they leave college.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation | H. G. (Herbert George) WellsNor is there anyone of that order who talks of going back to those kingdoms without the most urgent reason making it necessary.
I humbly petition your Majesty to be pleased to order that he be despatched here, so that this so urgent need may be supplied.
Never again would she ignore an urgent telegram, though she did not believe that this telegram had any real importance.
Hilda Lessways | Arnold BennettIn the first place, there is an immediate and urgent demand for at least Half a Million comfortable rain-proof dwellings.
Glances at Europe | Horace Greeley
British Dictionary definitions for urgent
/ (ˈɜːdʒənt) /
requiring or compelling speedy action or attention: the matter is urgent; an urgent message
earnest and persistent
Origin of urgent
1Derived forms of urgent
- urgency (ˈɜːdʒənsɪ), noun
- urgently, adverb
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