Usually means: Requiring immediate action or aid.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. exigent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. exigent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exigent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. exigent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. exigent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Exigent, exigent: Wordnik
  7. exigent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. exigent: Wiktionary
  9. exigent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. exigent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. exigent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. exigent: Dictionary.com
  13. Exigent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. exigent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. exigent: Rhymezone
  16. Exigent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. exigent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. exigent: Free Dictionary
  19. exigent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. exigent: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. exigent: Legal dictionary

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  1. exigent: Encyclopedia

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  1. exigent: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. exigent: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Urgent; pressing; needing immediate action.
adjective:  Demanding; requiring great effort.
noun:  (archaic) Extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency.
noun:  (archaic) The amount that is required.
noun:  (obsolete, British, law) A writ in proceedings before outlawry.

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