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emergency

/ɪˈmɝ.d͡ʒən.si/ sustantivo A2

En español: emergencia, urgencia, urgencias, emergencias

  1. A situation which poses an immediate risk and which requires urgent attention. · Cardiac arrest is an emergency requiring medical attention.
  2. The department of a hospital that treats emergencies.
  3. A person brought in at short notice to replace a member of staff, a player in a sporting team, etc.
  4. A critical urge to urinate or defecate.

Plural emergencies

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De la biblioteca

There are ten shillings over in case of emergencies.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 48 · C1
My friend and I are also ready for emergencies.”
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 187 · C1
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.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 201 · C1
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,--
Pride and Prejudice, p. 205 · B2

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