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crisis center

noun

  1. a central facility, telephone answering service, etc., where people may obtain informed help or advice in a personal crisis.
  2. an office, building, agency, etc., serving as a central point for receiving information and coordinating action during a disaster or emergency.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of crisis center1

First recorded in 1970–75

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Example Sentences

But some are irked by the extensive political posturing around rape, notably survivors and rape-crisis-center workers.

But a crisis center referred me to Larkin Street Youth Center, an organization for the newly diagnosed, like me.

“Set up a crisis center right now,” he said, according to an unpublished memo declassified last month.

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