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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There are ten shillings over in case of emergencies.
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.
My friend and I are also ready for emergencies.”
On an emergency he could keep the hound in the out-house at Merripit, but it was always a risk, and it was only on the supreme day, which he regarded as the end of all his efforts, that he dared do it.
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