EMERGENCY meaning: Unexpected situation requiring immediate action

We found 41 dictionaries that define the word emergency:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

emergency: Merriam-Webster.com
emergency: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
emergency: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
emergency: Collins English Dictionary
emergency: Vocabulary.com
Emergency, emergency: Wordnik
emergency: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
The Emergency, emergency: Wiktionary
emergency: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
emergency: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
emergency: Infoplease Dictionary
emergency: Dictionary.com
emergency: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Emergency (Icona Pop song), Emergency (Kool & the Gang album), Emergency (NGO), Emergency (Paramore song), Emergency (Pigeon Detectives album), Emergency (Tank song), Emergency (WizzyPro song), Emergency (disambiguation), Emergency (organization), Emergency (series), Emergency (video game series), Emergency, Emergency, The Emergency (India), The Emergency (Ireland), The Emergency (disambiguation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Emergency: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
emergency: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
emergency: Rhymezone
emergency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
emergency: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
emergency: Free Dictionary
emergency: Mnemonic Dictionary
emergency: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
emergency: Dictionary/thesaurus
Emergency: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)

emergency: Law.com Dictionary
Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
Emergency: Glossary of Health Care Terms
Emergency: Energy Dictionary
emergency: Legal dictionary
BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

emergency: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
Emergency: Merck Manuals
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
emergency: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

emergency: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A situation which poses an immediate risk and which requires urgent attention.
▸ noun:  The department of a hospital that treats emergencies.
▸ noun:  A person brought in at short notice to replace a member of staff, a player in a sporting team, etc.
▸ noun:  (attributive) Arising from or used in an emergency.
▸ noun:  (archaic) The quality of being emergent; sudden or unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence.
▸ noun:  (historical, Ireland) World War II as experienced in Ireland.

Opposite:

calm, normalcy, peace, stability, routine

Types:

fire, flood, earthquake, hurricane, tornado, tsunami, avalanche, landslide, more...

Phrases:

The Emergency, emergency room, emergency department, emergency response, national emergency, more...

Adjectives:

national, medical, such, present, great, sudden, surgical, real, public, extreme, acute

Colors:

red, orange, yellow, neon green, white, black, silver, gold, magenta, cyan

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