Definition of "urgencies" []

• Plural form of urgency. (noun)

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• ""We recognize the pressure, but we will always emphasize the long term when balancing the short-term urgencies," he said, while acknowledging that BP shareholders were facing a period of "uncertainty.""
• "Apparently, even when St. Vlad was ordering breakfast, muttering in his sleep, desultorily shifting the surface-clues in alphabet soup or gasping shamed urgencies in Vera's ear ... etc."
• "It's very difficult to rise above the immediate urgencies that weigh each of us down and take a look at how things are up there, above the roof line."