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Answer for the clue "Old city man is earnest and persistent ", 6 letters:
urgent

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Word definitions for urgent in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Urgent " is a song by the Anglo - American rock band Foreigner , and the first single from their hit album 4 in 1981.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Urgent \Ur"gent\, a. [L. urgens, p. pr. of urgere: cf. F. urgent. See Urge .] Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important. ``The urgent hour.'' --Shak. Some urgent cause to ordain ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. compelling immediate action; "too pressing to permit of longer delay"; "the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'"; "bridges in urgent need of repair" [syn: pressing ]

Usage examples of urgent.

Grant was thinking that this was about the fiftieth urgent agendum that had been pressed upon him, each more crucial than the other, and he was becoming powerless to evaluate them, but he did acknowledge that he had two personal obligations which had to be considered seriously.

Queen Victoria had ever called an urgent meeting of her counsellors, and ordered them to invent the equivalent of radio and television, it is unlikely that any of them would have imagined the path to lead through the experiments of Ampere, Biot, Oersted and Faraday, four equations of vector calculus, and the judgement to preserve the displacement current in a vacuum.

They have Carroll by the hands now, ane on the left, Emily on the right, sweetly urgent.

And how could she search for her angelico if she was constantly flying off to control urgent problems?

What if Ascham should think the case urgent, rout out an alienist, and come back with him?

That urgent summons back to England, although dev astating, had been in another way a lifeline, dragging her back to reality.

Even as the seconds passed, the bleep became more and more insistent, urgent.

But underneath this, more urgent and more understandable, the thick chokiness in his throat again as he looked over at Lorene who still sat alone serenely waiting, his blood beating in his eyes because he was free to go back there now.

But we do have certain urgent cares, where Chuan and we stand together.

Casey was not only warning Cozy about upcoming retribution for the horn thing, she was also thanking him for being so responsive to her urgent plea for help on a weekend night.

Some even made a desperate flight all the way to Ildira, where their urgent news only added to what the Mage-Imperator had already learned from the Dobro Designate.

So sudden and urgent that I was willing to deal with Tony Donuts, who had only recently finished murdering the best counterfeiter in the country and stealing his equipment.

Clutch and stood before Edger to make the obeisance that indicated he had urgent need to speak.

Toward the end of the winter of 1921 he wrote an urgent letter to Munk from Tokyo saying he had just learned that his older twin brother, the former Baron Kikuchi, an esthete and collector of French Impressionist paintings, had converted to Judaism while visiting Jerusalem on his way home from Europe.

Your college and tutors will grant you an exeat, while you attend to your urgent family business.