| 单词 | urgency pledge |
| 释义 | > as lemmasurgency pledge General attributive, as urgency order, urgency pledge, urgency rate, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > condition of being necessary > need or want > [adjective] > urgent > enacted or passed to deal with something urgent urgency1881 1881 E. W. Hamilton Diary 14 Mar. (1972) I. 116 Another piece of news which took one by surprise was Sir S. Northcote's manifesto deprecating resort to the urgency rules of which Mr. Gladstone had given notice for supply this evening. 1883 T. E. May Law of Parl. (ed. 9) 383 It became necessary to revive the urgency resolution of the 3rd February 1881. 1890 Lunacy Act §11 In cases of urgency where it is expedient..that the alleged lunatic should be forthwith placed under care and treatment, he may be received and detained..upon an urgency order. 1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 Apr. 5/2 It is said Mrs. Cathcart is confined under an urgency order. 1898 Morley in Daily News 14 Feb. 3/7 The Press agencies..paid what is called an urgency rate—that is about, I think, twenty or thirty times higher than the ordinary Press rate. 1906 R. Whiteing Ring in New 47 Taking in urgency pledges after the closing of the pawn-shops. < as lemmas |
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