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exigency  

   ( exigencies    plural  ) The exigenciesof a situation or a job are the demands or difficulties that you have to deal with as part of it.  
FORMAL      n-count   usu pl, usu N of n  
...the exigencies of a wartime economy.     
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exigency   , exigence         
1    acuteness, constraint, criticalness, demandingness, difficulty, distress, emergency, imperativeness, necessity, needfulness, pressingness, pressure, stress, urgency  
2    constraint, demand, necessity, need, requirement, wont  
3    crisis, difficulty, emergency, extremity, fix     (informal)   hardship, jam     (informal)   juncture, panic stations     (informal)   pass, pickle     (informal)   pinch, plight, predicament, quandary, scrape     (informal)   strait  

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exile, excise, excite, expire

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