1. A pressing or urgent situation
   "the health-care exigency" 
2. A sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
   - emergency, pinch

Derived forms: exigencies

See also: exigent

Type of: crisis

Encyclopedia: Exigency

• profitability
• profitable
• profitableness
• profitably
• the Pamirs
• the pits
• the right way
• the shit
• the shits
• the skinny
• The Star-Spangled Banner
• the States
• the Street
• the Tempter
• the three estates
• the trots
• the true
• the Venerable Bede
• The Virgin
• the way of the world
• the ways of the world
• the whole way
• Thea
• Theaceae
• theanthropism