emergency
- (attributive, sometimes) A situation which poses an immediate risk and which requires urgent 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.
- (archaic) The quality of being emergent; sudden or unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence.
- (euphemistic) A critical urge to urinate or defecate.
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɪˈmɜː(ɹ).dʒən.si/
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin emergentia, from Latin emergens, present participle of emergo (“to emerge, arise, come forth”), equivalent to emergent + -cy or emerge + -ency. Doublet of emergence.
first-aid
unexpected occurrence
rare possibility
sudden contingency
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