emergency.
A situation which poses an immediate risk and which requires urgent attention.
Meaning & usage
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.
The quality of being emergent; sudden or unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence.
A critical urge to urinate or defecate.
Where this word comes from
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.
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