urgent task

collocation in English

meaningsofurgentandtask

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urgent
adjective
uk
/ˈɜː.dʒənt/us
/ˈɝː.dʒənt/
very important and needing ...
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task
noun
uk
/tɑːsk/us
/tæsk/
a piece of work to be done, especially one done regularly, unwillingly, or ...
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(Definition ofurgentandtaskfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofurgent task

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Inevitably this is anurgenttaskand one of considerable significance.
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However, we have empirical material on which to build and anurgenttaskis to verify our judgments by continuous follow-up studies.
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So, the general reader - who considers themself sophisticated enough to appreciate literary and philosophical allusions - will rest assured that preserving linguistic diversity is an important andurgenttask.
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The mosturgenttaskis to work with elderly performers and composers to assemble metadata about the oldest recordings of songs and who composed and performed them.
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For this reason, the creation and application of a universal language becomes anurgenttaskin the process of creating the new culture.
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He argued that oururgenttaskshould be to discover how "communicating" animals go about designing one another's behavior through their actions.
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The mosturgenttaskwas simply to find out how much the government was spending on subsidies to promoted industries.
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In my opinion, this is the mosturgenttaskwe have ahead of us, if we want to further understand phonological development.
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Oururgenttaskis to try to reinstate theatre's fundamental aims before we lose touch with them altogether.
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If this is the case, then a two-tier thinking is especially necessary; for judging among the competing moral sensibilities that define various atrocities as intolerable becomes a reallyurgenttask.
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Sindima alludes to an especiallyurgenttaskfor revisionist history when he reflects on the scale of politically motivated detentions and persecutions.
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Our mosturgenttaskmust be to ensure the success of grading at the wholesale stage.
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Of the two, this is the moreurgenttask.
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I am sure that this is a most important andurgenttask.
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It is not possible at this stage to predict how long thisurgenttaskwill take.
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The first and mosturgenttaskwould be the simplification of bureaucratic burdens.
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To arrest this decline is our mosturgenttask.
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In my view, the mosturgenttaskis the provision of married quarters.
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Let us get going with theurgenttaskof rebuilding our great industry.
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The first andurgenttaskis to separate these combatants and to stabilise the position.
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