HOW TO PRONOUNCE
urgent
/ˈɝ.d͡ʒənt/
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What does urgent mean?
adjective
- Requiring immediate attention.
- Of people: insistent, solicitous.
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IPA pronunciation
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It was much debated at Court whether there should be peace with Spain or no, and he was very urgent for war.
In the early days of aviation larger and better engines of British make specially suited for aeroplanes were our most urgent need.
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On the contrary, the most urgent problem to-day is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.
This definite ideal is a far more urgent and practical matter in our existing English trouble than any immediate plans or proposals.
At the moment when urgent necessity is sending up prices, one of them brings me a magnificent Gad-fly intended for the Bembex.