emergency
/ɪˈmɝ.d͡ʒən.si/ noun A2- A situation which poses an immediate risk and which requires urgent attention. · Cardiac arrest is an emergency requiring medical attention.
- The department of a hospital that treats emergencies.
- A person brought in at short notice to replace a member of staff, a player in a sporting team, etc.
- A critical urge to urinate or defecate.
Plural emergencies
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As long as the war lasted, he looked upon him as his fellow-helper in all emergencies and fed him carefully with hay and corn.
It was absolutely necessary, therefore, to think of something; and in this emergency recollecting _when_ she had seen him last in Hertfordshire, and feeling curious to know what he would say on the subject of their hasty departure, she observed,--
There are ten shillings over in case of emergencies.
My friend and I are also ready for emergencies.”
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