cấp bách
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Urgent, pressing: Describes a situation, need, or matter that requires immediate action or attention due to its critical importance.
- Critical, emergent: Describes a state of tension or crisis that demands a swift response.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Đây là một nhu cầu cấp bách. (This is an urgent need.)
- Tình hình y tế trở nên cấp bách. (The medical situation became critical.)
- Chúng tôi nhận được một tin nhắn cấp bách. (We received an urgent message.)
Advanced Usage
- Used in formal, official, or military contexts to denote high priority.
- Công văn cấp bách (an urgent dispatch/official document).
- Họp khẩn cấp (an emergency meeting) is a common collocation where "khẩn cấp" is a near-synonym.
Variants and Related Words
Khẩn cấp (adj): emergency, urgent. Often used interchangeably with "cấp bách," but can imply a slightly more immediate, sudden crisis.
- Tình trạng khẩn cấp (state of emergency).
Gấp rút (adj): rushed, hastened. Focuses on the speed of action taken in response to an urgent situation.
- Công việc đang tiến hành gấp rút. (The work is proceeding urgently.)
Synonyms
- Urgent: requiring immediate action.
- Pressing: demanding prompt attention.
- Critical: of decisive importance; at a point of crisis.
- Imperative: absolutely necessary.
Related Idioms and Phrases
Tình thế cấp bách: a critical/urgent situation.
- Trong tình thế cấp bách, mọi quyết định phải nhanh chóng. (In a critical situation, every decision must be swift.)
Nhu cầu cấp bách: a pressing/urgent need.
- Nước sạch là nhu cầu cấp bách sau thảm họa. (Clean water is a pressing need after the disaster.)
- Urgent, pressing
- đòi hỏi cấp báchan urgent requirement
- Tense, requiring immediate attention
- tình thế cấp bácha tense situation, an emergency