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noun

a sudden, urgent, usually unexpected occurrence or occasion requiring immediate action.

a state, especially of need for help or relief, created by some unexpected event: a weather emergency; a financial emergency.

adjective

granted, used, or for use in an emergency: an emergency leave; emergency lights.

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Origin:
1625–35; < Medieval Latin ēmergentia, equivalent to ēmerg- (see emerge) + -entia -ency. See emergent

Related forms

non·e·mer·gen·cy, adjective, noun, plural -cies.

post·e·mer·gen·cy, adjective

pre·e·mer·gen·cy, adjective, noun, plural -cies.

Synonyms
1. exigency, extremity, pinch, quandary, plight. Emergency, crisis, straits refer to dangerous situations. An emergency is a situation demanding immediate action: A power failure created an emergency in transportation. A crisis is a vital or decisive turning point in a condition or state of affairs, and everything depends on the outcome of it: Help arrived when affairs had reached a crisis. Strait (usually straits) suggests a pressing situation, often one of need or want: The family was in desperate straits for food and clothing.

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When an emergency arises, you may be injured or stressed and unable to think clearly.

They briefly upset the operations of some government organisations, including telephone access to the emergency services.

Learn the secrets of emergency survival-in any situation.

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When an emergency arises, you may be injured or stressed and unable to think clearly.

They briefly upset the operations of some government organisations, including telephone access to the emergency services.

Learn the secrets of emergency survival-in any situation.

The improved access and evacuation ability would be helpful in the case of emergency.

Emergency jobs, and the need to take advantage of all good weather, make for long spells from home and family.

The simplicity and speed of this dish are reminders that few staple ingredients are more useful than eggs for emergency meals.

When emergency workers need practice, there aren't always injured people lying around to tend to.

The dean will oversee the mathematics, science, social science and emergency services disciplines.

Emergency services, though quick to react, were swamped by the scale of the damage.

Driskell and his colleagues rehearse constantly at a practice site to be ready in an emergency.

Daiichi, the tsunami arrived, knocking out crucial diesel back-up generators designed to cool the reactors in an emergency.

Designate an out-of-town emergency contact-long-distance calls may be easier to make than local ones.

There are many, many emergency kits and disaster plans out there.

Before the students show up, make a list of of emergency advising numbers.

But such emergency care is often extremely expensive.

The map also locates three cabins in which he might have found emergency rations and supplies.

Requiring that emergency plans address accidents involving multiple reactors on the same site.

Doing it during an actual emergency would be a miracle.

The sulfur is a by-product of emergency procedures taken immediately after the accident.

Much attention was paid to emergency dispatchers' efforts to pinpoint the location of cell-phone callers a year ago.

Researchers hope the work will point the way to better emergency rations for sick children.

If there's an emergency evacuation, leave all your bags, packs and possessions aboard.

One at the station as an emergency escape vehicle, one attached as a guest house perhaps.

Calling emergency services using internet-based phones is spotty in some areas and nonexistent in others.

If you've got some emergency preparedness techniques that aren't covered here, log in to add your advice.

Planning for an emergency once you have kids in the home is absolutely crucial.

With fixed-line phones, calls to emergency can be traced to the exact location.

Even the emergency lane has one hard and fast rule: no stopping unless it's an actual emergency.

Two days later, he grew so disoriented that his wife took him to the emergency department.

She developed breathing problems and a rash and went to a local hospital's emergency room.

State officials have published recommendations for building sturdy, low-cost emergency homes.

News article on the shortage of specialty doctors in emergency rooms.

These include the end to emergency law and the dismantling of the local security.

Patients who leave emergency rooms tend to be unclear about what was done for them or what they should do next.

In a pinch, shaking the device will generate enough power for you to make an emergency phone call.

So far, the houseguest who took me up on the emergency offer is still not blind.

The state is becoming bigger, thanks in large part to the emergency measures taken to avert economic.

We have no services and no fuel," he said at an emergency meeting of the county commissioners.

Problems with emergency equipment and disaster procedures are far more pervasive than publicly described.

Bloomberg unveiled the nation's first comprehensive, geographically targeted emergency notification system for cellphones.

The flight attendants are now pointing out the emergency exits.

They carried emergency rations of jelly beans tucked away in their handlebars.

The nature of the congresswoman's injury, along with prompt emergency care kept her alive.

We've got a family doctor and minor emergency care set up, but no formal health insurance.

Ninety-three percent of emergency food sites have seen an increase in first-time users of their services.

Castro handed power to his brother last week to undergo emergency intestinal surgery.

Among the unique features of the program is that all first-year students will become trained emergency medical technicians.

Outside people started to head for the hills as the national emergency office issued a tsunami warning.

We have to be ready for any artistic emergency that might arise.

Then the secretary can determine whether the situation is truly an emergency.

Far better, they say, to issue emergency housing vouchers to displaced families so that they can rent from the private sector.

It could also deliver supplies to hard-to-reach places, making it especially useful in military and emergency situations.

Nevada declares emergency over out-of-control wildfire.

We had told our traveling students to contact the resident director in case of emergency.

There was no panic, medical help was swift and the work of the emergency services was better co-ordinated than in the past.

It is unclear whether the site was intended as a fallout shelter or simply as a storage place for emergency provisions.

How long the spill continues depends on which of several emergency efforts under way is successful.

California allows you to teach with an emergency credential as long as you show that you are enrolled in a certificate program.

What began as an emergency measure, to address housing shortages during the second.

In the wake of the hurricane thousands of survivors clinging to their pets were told by emergency workers to leave them behind.

With enhanced emergency medicine, many soldiers are coming home from war with grievous injuries instead of being killed.

Wound dressings made of ground shellfish exoskeletons save lives by stopping extreme bleeding in emergency situations.

Soon afterwards it is followed by the emergency services digging down to find you.

The information can also help with updating building codes and emergency plans and setting earthquake insurance rates.

We take it for granted that our hair dryers won't send us to the emergency room and our toothbrushes won't make us go numb.

Neither is it currently prepared to allow emergency rooms to turn away uninsured patients.

But she borrowed a roll of duct tape, for emergency foot maintenance, and carried on gamely.

The system, which would rocket the crew to safety in the event of an emergency on the launch pad or during.

In the long run the organization identified needs that go beyond emergency relief.

The practice is not only deadly, but also dangerous for emergency personnel.

Provides old phones for emergency use by, for example, domestic-violence victims.

The plan had to return to the airport for an emergency landing.

Low-tech emergency room therapies can stem the damage from traumatic brain injuries.

At stake is a product that could revolutionize emergency medical treatment and surgery.

We would have to add a small emergency escape hatch to mount the windows in our underground shelters.

More mysterious is that there's been no signal from his plane's emergency beacon.

The only way the military currently treats internal bleeding is by emergency invasive surgery by medical experts.

Foambots can be useful for other applications, such as picking up dangerous objects and quickly creating an emergency doorstop.

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World English Dictionary

emergency (ɪˈmɜːdʒənsɪ)

—n , pl -cies
1.	a. an unforeseen or sudden occurrence, esp of a danger demanding immediate remedy or action
	b. (as modifier): an emergency exit
2.	a. a patient requiring urgent treatment
	b. (as modifier): an emergency ward
3.	state of emergency a condition, declared by a government, in which martial law applies, usually because of civil unrest or natural disaster
4.	(NZ) a player selected to stand by to replace an injured member of a team; reserve

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Word Origin & History

emergency

"unforeseen occurrence requiring immediate attention," 1630s, from L. emergens, prp. of emergere (see emerge).

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