English-Spanish translations for urgency

• apremió
• apremio
• perentoriedad
• premura
  Estamos fallando al no aportar suficiente premura a este debate. We are failing in not bringing enough urgency to this debate.
  Pero debemos actuar con la premura que exige el problema. But we must act with the urgency that the problem demands.
  Pero los accidentes aéreos de agosto de 2005 exigen que actuemos con mayor premura y mayor ambición. The air accidents in August 2005, however, require us to act with greater urgency and greater ambition.
• urgencia
  De nuevo se apela a la urgencia. Yet again urgency is requested.
  ¿Por qué no hay una urgencia inmediata? Why is there no immediate urgency?
  Creo que ambas justifican la urgencia. I think that justifies the urgency.

Definition of urgency

• The quality or condition of being urgent
• insistence, pressure

Synonyms

• exigency

Examples

• the urgency of a demand
• I have this sudden urgency to use the toilet.

Related words

• insurgency
• antiinsurgency
• urgency incontinence