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urgent English

Meaning urgent meaning

What does urgent mean?
Definitions in simple English

urgent

If something is urgent, it needs attention quickly. An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance.

urgent

(= pressing) compelling immediate action too pressing to permit of longer delay the urgent words 'Hurry! Hurry!' bridges in urgent need of repair

Synonyms urgent synonyms

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Topics urgent topics

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Examples urgent examples

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Simple sentences

There is an urgent need for new ideas.
I had no idea that it was so urgent.
I canceled my appointment because of urgent business.
Please hurry, it's urgent.
Paula was called away on urgent business.
Then, please give him this note. This is urgent.
They were urgent in their demand.
She sent me an urgent telegram.
The manager called an urgent staff meeting.
The boss said it's urgent!
It was urgent.
Urgent business prevented him from coming.
If there's anything urgent, you can get in touch with me.
Those who are suffering from hunger in Africa need urgent help.
There is an urgent message for you.
I have urgent business with you.
I must be away on urgent business.
He had some urgent news to tell me.
He has gone to Osaka on urgent business.

Movie subtitles

Calling urgent basis in Noah.
Call urgent basis in Noah.
I'm sorry, but it's urgent.
This lady has urgent business with me at the moment.
It's terribly urgent.
He says it's urgent.
I must interrupt the music for a moment. I have an urgent message from the police.
It was marked very urgent.
General this is urgent.
Cabal, the gun's in urgent danger.
This is most urgent.
A message for you, urgent.
He said it's urgent, will you step inside?
I should like to stay, but I recollected some urgent affairs at my abbey.
I must speak to you on a most urgent matter.
This is very urgent.
But the arrival of the Spanish Ambassador makes it especially urgent. that you sign the treaty with France now.
He says it's very urgent.
Your message said it was urgent. It is.
Now you'll understand why it was so urgent for me to see you.
Urgent. -Thank you.
I had some rather urgent business to attend to. I got my time muddled.
It must have been very urgent business that kept you from the christening.
Well, I should really like to stay, but I recollected some urgent affairs at my abbey.
I must talk to him. It's urgent.
Urgent.
Fellow citizens. our esteemed sheriff, Mr Joseph Keogh. has been suddenly called out of town on urgent business.
Something very urgent came up.
I have already started a survey on our most urgent needs.
They seem to have something very urgent to tell you, sir.
Yes, it's an urgent and private matter.
But my old lady says it's urgent.
And when she says it's urgent, it's urgent.

News and current affairs

Viewed from the standpoint of food security and the wealth of rural areas, there is now an urgent need to revisit the CAP's main instruments so that a new policy formula can be introduced.
NEW YORK - Today's world hunger crisis is unprecedentedly severe and requires urgent measures.
But the Bank does not yet have sufficient funds to meet these countries' urgent needs, and has had to ration assistance to a small fraction of the flows that could be effectively and reliably used.
But the collective action problem is no less daunting, and it requires urgent attention if the world's growth aspirations are to be achieved.
But what if some travelers have a higher tolerance of risk, or just a more urgent need to travel, than others?
That is true: most of those gases are still in the atmosphere, and without them the problem would not be nearly as urgent as it now is.
Health education through public media, reaching distant areas of the country, is an urgent priority, but has been utterly ignored in favor of commercial priorities.
Their agenda is more pressing, and their problems, frankly, far more serious than ours, which makes it much more urgent for them to develop theories appropriate to the challenges they face.
To be sure, absentee farming by elites and educated urban workers can't solve all of Africa's urgent food needs.
The world-wide dilemma over exchange rate management is that when market pressure is not high necessary changes no longer seem so urgent.
The upside of rebuilding - beyond the urgent restoration of normal life for thousands of people - is only a temporary palliative for an impaired economy.
The motivation for urgent action on behalf of the poorest nations is clear.
But it is their systems that are in the greatest and most urgent need of stronger checks and balances.
There is an urgent need to find a way out of this impasse.
There is now widespread agreement on the need for increased donor financing for small farmers (those with two hectares or less of land, or impoverished pastoralists), which is especially urgent in Africa.
So, whether President Barack Obama or Mitt Romney prevails in November, the next president will be constrained by the twin need for urgent economic stabilization and longer-term reforms.
Regarded as an urgent problem until recently, the federal deficit is now being placed on the back burner of American politics.
Most important, economic renewal depends on the next government's willingness and ability to address the institutional weaknesses that have made concerted action increasingly urgent.

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