Word Finder - emergency

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A situation which poses an immediate risk and which requires urgent attention.

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Cardiac arrest is an emergency and if you find someone in cardiac arrest you should call 999 immediately.

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The department of a hospital that treats emergencies.

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An individual brought in at short notice to replace a member of staff, a player in a sporting team, etc.

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The quality of being emergent; sudden or unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence.

I had an emergency call.

It seemed like hours in the emergency room before the diagnosis.

We found their emergency back-up supplies here.

He asked for a contact phone number and gave me an emergency number to call.

The injured may proceed immediately to the emergency station, the fed said.

I locked out all the terminals, the emergency operations networks for the eastern part of the country, and re-routed the communications systems to my micro.

Megan indicated the emergency room to her right.

Would you mind if I gave this number to my Father for emergency use only?

He glanced out the window and realized he'd pulled in the entrance for the emergency room and morgue.

He took them to the nearby hospital and set Sofi carefully on a stretcher in the hallway leading to the emergency room.

Brady reached into a cargo pocket and pulled free an emergency bandage wrap.

Emergency lights were now on outside the motel, mak­ing the return trip easier once he reached the road.

She woke Sofi with a touch and tugged the gurney down to the emergency room.

Dan tore Brady's uniform open then pulled out a small emergency medical kit and slapped skin grafts over the two wounds.

No contact, unless there's an emergency.

The small group moved more hurriedly now and the man said something to Betsy and shoved her forward toward an emergency exit.

I'm glad I thought to create an emergency chocolate stash.

She had come prepared for such an emergency, but any delay might prove embarrassing.

She hung back as they entered the hospital and watched the emergency room personnel take Traci.

He hadn't issued an emergency order over the nets of those who worked for him, and he'd asked someone in the regular military to contact her rather than calling out his special security forces.

You know tonight I had to prevent the VP's commo guy from using the emergency network to order gin?

The emergency network had not been utilized, which meant that by morning one of the high-ranking men hiding underground would be on the phone to General Greene to complain about the lack of gin.

She all but dropped into the commo sector chair and issued mayday calls on the emergency net.

She can locate and open the federal emergency supply depots.

She frowned, glancing around the empty emergency room.

It is thus a matter of difficulty to provide trucki for a stidden emergency, e.g.

While we couldn't keep up with the ambulance but we held our own and kept the emergency vehicle in sight.

We seem to be the emergency points of contact for anything that goes wrong anywhere in the western hemisphere.

The base camp housed the emergency response helicopters for Tucson and neighboring sectors and was manned with a skeletal crew of Guardians and one on-duty pilot, a Natural who'd been trained to fly.

Kiera went more than willingly, near the emergency point for reaching the bathroom.

Emergency lighting glowed red, turning the world inside the broken helo surreal.

You were unconscious and it was an emergency.

Don't you have a number where I can reach you in an emergency?

Impressment is commonly employed to fill the ranks, and in cases of emergency the prison population is drawn upon for recruits.

As commander-in-chief of the army and navy, and as charged with the faithful execution of all laws, he is likely to assume, and would indeed he expected to assume, all the powers which the emergency requires.

In the first place, there were in early days far more bishops in proportion to the number of believers than is the custom now; and, secondly, it was the rule (except in cases of emergency) to baptize only in the season from Easter to Pentecost, and the bishop was always present and laid his hands on the newly baptized.

Even before the Canadian Pacific railway was fully completed, it proved of great service in a national emergency which suddenly arose in the north-west.

By the terms of his commission he was empowered to act, in case of emergency, without waiting for orders; he was, moreover, to be kept informed by the French cabinet of the whole course of business.

The three days that must pass before any clinical effect is obtained renders it useless in an emergency.

Make sure everyone rafting knows how to react to emergency situations, including free-floating through the rapids.

Dusty should have given you a means of contacting someone in an emergency, he said with disapproval.

There are no locks on the doors or windows, and only one route of egress in the case of an emergency.

His side of the conversation indicated there was an emergency.

London was not to be supposed helpless in such an emergency; Manchester, Glasgow and Dumfries, rid of his presence, had risen against him, and Charles paused.

Grant possessed or acquired both to such a degree that he proved fully equal to the emergency.

In the critical situation after the battle of Pavia (1525) she proved herself equal to the emergency, maintained order in the kingdom, and manoeuvred very skilfully to detach Henry VIII.

The Government repeatedly exposed itself to the charge of proroguing Parliament in order to avail itself of these emergency paragraphs.

The situation was often such that Parliament would not work, and the Government was faced with the alternative of stopping the machine of State or availing itself of emergency decrees.

The Reichsrat's right of control was secured after the event by the fact that the Government was bound, the next time it assembled, to lay the emergency decrees before it within four weeks; and that it could refuse its ratification.

It was only in 1917 that the emergency decrees promulgated by the Stargkh Ministry at the beginning of the war failed to receive ratification, in retaliation for the suppression of trial by jury by a military trial and the extension over civilians of the j urisdiction of the military courts.