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emergency
What does emergency mean?
emergency (noun): a situation which poses an immediate risk and which requires urgent attention.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use emergency in a sentence?
- Cardiac arrest is an emergency requiring medical attention. (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where does emergency come from?
Borrowed from Medieval Latin emergentia, from Latin emergens, present participle of emergo (“to emerge, arise, come forth”), equivalent to emergent + -cy or emerge + -ency.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to emergency
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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