Both Uses
imperative
in
Military-Industrial Complex Speech
(Auto-generated)
- We recognize the imperative need for this development.†
*
- Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.†
Definitions:
-
(1)
(imperative) essential and urgent
-
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much less commonly, in grammar, imperative describes a sentence that expresses a command or request.