Usually means: Urgent need or demand situation.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. exigency: Merriam-Webster
  2. exigency: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exigency: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. exigency: Collins English Dictionary
  5. exigency: Vocabulary.com
  6. Exigency, exigency: Wordnik
  7. exigency: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. exigency: Wiktionary
  9. exigency: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. exigency: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. exigency: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. exigency: Dictionary.com
  13. exigency: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Exigency: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. exigency: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. exigency: Rhymezone
  17. Exigency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. exigency: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. exigency: FreeDictionary.org
  20. exigency: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. exigency: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. exigency: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. exigency: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exigency: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (chiefly in the plural) The demands or requirements of a situation.
noun:  An urgent situation, one requiring extreme effort or attention.

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