{
    "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’."
}