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[ US /ˌɛkˈsɪdʒənsi/ ]
NOUN
  1. a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
    he never knew what to do in an emergency
  2. a pressing or urgent situation
    the health-care exigency

How To Use exigency In A Sentence

  • The so-called audience learns about the proposer herself, measures her credibility, considers her ideas, and deepens her understanding of the current exigency as the rhetor sees it.
  • Financial exigency could thus join seamlessly with reorganization to become an everyday occurrence.
  • The investigating committee concluded that the administration had acted without demonstrating financial exigency that mandated the termination of continuing appointments.
  • ‘uprest’ (“Revolt of Islam”, 3 21 5), which has been described as a nonce-word deliberately coined by Shelley ‘on no better warrant than the exigency of the rhyme.’ The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • (Not a little has been written about 'uprest' ( "Revolt of Islam", 3 21 5), which has been described as a nonce-word deliberately coined by Shelley 'on no better warrant than the exigency of the rhyme.' The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete
  • Splendid!" said the Widow -- and to tell the truth, she was not far out of the way, and with Helen Darley as a foil anybody would know she must be foudroyant and pyramidal, -- if these French adjectives may be naturalized for this one particular exigency. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
  • Should the rebellion succeed, as he professes to believe it will, his instrument and accomplice, Maximilian, will be discarded with as little ceremony as the first Napoleon discarded some of the puppet kings whom he saw proper to crown and discrown according to the exigency of his occasions. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
  • Financial exigency, familial, societal and cultural pressures, and educational deficits force many minority law students to make hard choices about whether they should study law.
  • Sir Lewis' avuncular features mask a hard-nosed businessman unafraid of putting financial exigency before personal sentiment.
  • Upon an exigency, local authorities shall summon militia to guard riverbanks immediately.
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