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{
"term": "urgent",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "that needs to be dealt with or happen immediately",
"labels": "(formal)",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The police have issued an urgent appeal for information."
},
{
"text": "a problem that requires urgent attention"
},
{
"text": "‘Can I see you for a moment?’ ‘Is it urgent?’"
},
{
"text": "Mark the message ‘urgent’, please."
},
{
"text": "The law is **in urgent need of** reform."
},
{
"text": "They’ve called an urgent meeting for this evening."
},
{
"text": "It is urgent that the law be changed."
},
{
"text": "Don't forget that one, it's rather urgent."
},
{
"text": "the increasingly urgent political situation at home"
},
{
"text": "The situation calls for urgent action."
}
],
"synonyms": "pressing",
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "seem", "sound"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "showing that you think that something needs to be dealt with immediately",
"examples": [
{
"text": "an urgent whisper"
},
{
"text": "Her voice sounded urgent on the phone."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "seem", "sound"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈɜːdʒənt/",
"audio": "ur/urgent/urgent__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈɜːrdʒənt/",
"audio": "ur/urgent/urgent__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late 15th cent.: from Old French, from Latin urgent- ‘pressing, driving’, from the verb urgere ‘press, drive’."
}