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Definition: Emergency |
EmergencyAdjective1. Made necessary by sudden occurrence demanding immediate remedy; "the plane made an emergency landing"; "an emergency session to consider aid for the earthquake victims". Noun1. A sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action; "he never knew what to do in an emergency". 2. A state in which martial law applies; "the governor declared a state of emergency". 3. A brake operated by hand; usually operates by mechanical linkage. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "emergency" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Note: Emergency \E*mer"gen*cy\, noun; plural Emergencies. [See Emergence.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Environment | A situation created by an accidental release or spill of hazardous chemicals that poses a threat to the safety of workers, residents, the environment, or property. (Chemical). (references) |
Public Administration | An urgent and usually unforeseen incident which requires immediate response to minimize the consequences. Source: European Union. (references) |
| This term refers to a pressing necessity or an unexpected occurrence like a structure failure requiring immediate repairs, measures to protect structures or other property against some unforeseen hazard, or similar instances in which there is not sufficient time to place the required work under construction contract. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An emergency is a situation that poses an immediate threat to human life or serious damage to property. A false report of an emergency is usually a crime.Forms of emergency:
See also
- fire
- crime such as a violent crime in progress
- note that a "cold" crime, even if serious, may no longer be an emergency
- medical emergency
- maritime emergency
- state of emergency declared by a government official during some disaster such as a terrorist attack or declaration of war or
- natural disasters such as:
- floods
- earthquakes
- tornadoes
- volcanic eruptions
- tsunami
- emergency telephone number
- call for help
- emergency responder
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Emergency."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Many countries public telephone networkss have a single emergency telephone number, sometimes known as the universal emergency telephone number or occasionally the emergency services number, that allows a caller to contact local emergency services for assistance. The emergency telephone number differs from country to country. It is typically a three-digit number, (though not always), so that it can be easily remembered and dialed quickly. Some countries have a different emergency number for each of the different emergency services, these often differ only by the last digit.The number is intended to be used only in an emergency.
For routine and non-urgent enquiries one should use the ordinary telephone numbers for the particular emergency service. These are normally listed in the local telephone directory. Routine and non-urgent calls as well as hoax or crank calls to emergency services numbers waste the time of both dispatchers and emergency responders and can endanger lives. False reports of emergencies are often prosecuted as crimes. If you need to call for help the emergency services numbers are there to help you.
The emergency telephone number is a special case in the country's telephone number plan. In the past, calls to the emergency telephone number were often routed over special dedicated circuits, though with the advent of electronic exchanges these calls are now often mixed with ordinary telephone traffic, but may be able to access circuits that other traffic cannot. Often the system is set up so that once a call is made to an emergency telephone number, it must be answered. Should the caller abandon the call the line may still be held until the emergency service answers and releases the call.
An emergency telephone number call may be answered by either a telephone operator or an emergency service dispatcher. Depending on the system used:
This approach rapidly identifies what emergency services such as firefighters, police, ambulance, paramedics or emergency medical services are required. In some emergencies more than one service may be required. If this is the case, one should ask for the most urgently needed service first and explain to the dispatcher that other services are also needed. Generally one emergency service can call on each of the other services to assist them.
- if the operator answers, the caller may be asked what service is required, Police, Fire or Ambulance (or Medical) and the call extended to that services' emergency dispatcher, OR
- if the emergency service dispatcher answers, the caller may be asked the nature of their emergency.
Generally it is best to allow the emergency dispatcher to control the call, as they are specially trained to do so. The emergency dispatcher may find it necessary to give urgent advice in life-threatening situations. Some dispatchers have special training in telling people how to perform first aid or even cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
In many parts of the world an emergency service can identify the telephone number that a call has been placed from. This is normally done using the system that the telephone company uses to bill calls, rather than Caller ID. This means that emergency services can identify even unlisted telephone numbers. For an indiviual fixed landline telephone the callers number can often be associated with the caller's address and therefore their location. However, with mobile phones and business telephones, the address may be a mailing address rather than the caller's location. The latest "enhanced" systems, such as Enhanced 911, are able to provide the physical location of mobile telephones. This is often specifically mandated in a country's legislation.
Emergency numbers by region:
See also
- Africa
- Chad: Fire department: 18, Police: 17
- Djibouti: Fire department: 18, Police: 17
- Morocco: Fire department: 15, Police (city): 19, Royal military police (country): 177
- South Africa: 999, Police: 10111
- Tunisia: Emergency medical service (Samu): 190, Police: 197
- Uganda: 999 (Police)
- Australasia:
- Australia: 000 (from a mobile telephone, you must tell the operator which state you are calling from)
- New Zealand: 111
- Asia: 119 in some parts
- China: Fire department: 119, Police: 110, Rescue: 120
- India: Police: 100, Fire department: 103
- Israel: Police: 100, Medical emergency: 101, Fire department: 102
- Hong Kong: 999
- Japan: Police: 110, Fire department: 119
- Singapore: Medical emergency and fire: 995, Police: 999
- Europe
- Mainland: 112 (also standard on GSM mobile telephones)
- Belgium: 112, Fire and medical: 100, Police 101
- France: 112, Emergency medical service (Samu): 15, Police: 17, Fire and rescue: 18
- UK: 999, or 112 (for compatibility with mainland Europe)
- Norway: Fire and rescue: 110, Police: 112, Medical: 113
- Italy: Police (and general emergency): 113, Carabinieri: 112, Medical emergency: 118, Fire, disasters: 115
- Poland: Medical: 999, Fire department: 998, Police: 997
- Russia: Fire: 01, Police (Militsia): 02, Medical emergency: 103 (or 03), Gas leaks: 04
- North America:
- United States of America: 911
- Canada: 911
- Mexico: 060
- South America
- Bolivia: Medical emergency: 118, Police: 110
- Brazil: Fire department: 193, Ambulance: 192, Police: 190
- World Wide Emergency telephone numbers
- call for help
999: the first emergency number
The first emergency number system to be deployed was in London, United Kingdom on June 30, 1937. When 999 was dialled a buzzer sounded and a red light flashed in the exchange to attract an operator's attention. It was gradually extended to cover the entire country but it was not until the late 1960s that the facility was available from every telephone.In the days of loop disconnect dialling, attention was devoted to making the numbers difficult to dial accidentally by making them involve long sequences of pulses, such as in the UK 999 emergency number.
History of emergency services numbers
Most GSM telephones are designed so that dialling 112 even works when the keypad lock is activated or there is no SIM card present in the phone. It will also work if your home network isn't avalible, as long as any other is.
- first systems were established in the UK via the operator
- UK 999 system set up in July 1937
- North American 911 system set up in 1968, but not widespread until the 1970s
- in France, in 1928, the telephone operators have to connect the calls for emergency reasons even when the service is closed ; in 1929, the people connected to an automated commutator (less than 10000 people in Paris) have to dial 18 to reach the fire brigade; it will not be widespread until the 1970s
- 112 is the international GSM standard emergency number.
Additional topics to be covered:
- EU adopted the 112 number as a standard on 29 July, 1991.
- mention telephony as essential service
- mobile phones have made emergency reporting more pervasive
- accidental dialling from mobile phones
- treatment of silent emergency calls
- 311 a non-emergency telephone number, popular in the US, that can be used to contact the Police and other services to report minor incidents and historic crime that does not endanger life - to avoid overloading 911.
- National Emergency Number Association (NENA)
External links
- http://ambulance.eire.org/Numbers/Index.htm
- http://www.sccfd.org/travel.html
- History of the UK 999 system
- Emergency numbers in Mexico
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Emergency telephone number."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A medical emergency is an injury or illness that poses an immediate threat to a person's health or life which requires help from a doctor or hospital. The doctor's specialization of emergency medicine includes techniques for effective handling of medical emergencies and resuscitation of patients.Note: Wikipedia does not provide medical advice. If you have a medical problem, you should seek expert help.
Responding To Medical Emergencies
The proper way to handle a medical emergency is to activate the emergency medical services and call for help using your local emergency telephone number, such as 9-1-1 if you are in Canada or the United States. Be ready to give your location and tell what is wrong with the person you are calling about. Answer the questions you are asked.
If you are trained to perform first aid, do what you can to care for the victim. If you are not, remain calm and stay with the person. Do not allow others to crowd around unless their presence is needed. Do not evacuate the victim yourself unless you are either completely confident of your ability to do so or have no other alternative (as in wilderness first aid.) Self-transport should be to the nearest emergency room.
If a person is not breathing, artificial respiration may be immediately required to save their life. Artificial respiration is part of CPR training. An emergency medical technician or paramedic can use airway management techniques to help a person who is not breathing, which is one reason to call for help.
If a person is not breathing and their heart is not beating (i.e. no pulse), Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is necessary to keep them alive until help arrives.
List of Medical Emergencies
Many medical emergency conditions are listed below, with specific information, advice, and first aid measures listed as part of the entry. As always, comprehensive training in advance is the best way to go.
AGAIN WITH EMPHASIS Note: Wikipedia does not provide medical advice. If you have a medical problem, you should seek expert help.
suggested topic headers for medical emergencies: Definition | Causes | Diagnosis | First Aid | Field Care (for EMTs) | Clinical Treatment | References | External Links -- if you don't know, leave it blank
- Cardiac
- Aortic dissection
- Cardiac arrest
- cardiac arrhythmia
- Cardiac tamponade
- Heart attack
- Ventricular fibrillation
- Illness
- Poisoning, poisonous snake bite
- Electric shock
- Injury
- Severe burn
- Head trauma
- Severe blood loss or bleeding
- Neurological
- Cerebrovascular accident ("stroke")
- Transient ischemic attack
- Respiratory
- Asphyxia
- Choking
- near drowning
- Epiglottitis
- pneumothorax
- Shock
- Allergic or anaphylactic shock
- Metabolic emergencies
- diabetic coma
- diabetic ketoacidosis
- hypoglycemic coma
- Gynecologic / Obstetric / Urological
- ectopic pregnancy
- gynecologic hemorrhage
- priapism - a urological emergency
- sexual assault
- testicular torsion
- please add more to this list
Hospital and clinical response to medical emergencies
An emergency medicine physician should be available at all times. Know and follow your facility procedures, including "Code Blue" as appropriate. Crash carts are maintained for use in medical emergencies in the hospital setting. Be certain to keep your CPR and ACLS certifications current.
Related Topics
- call for help
- first aid
- wilderness first aid
- emergency medical service
- emergency medical technician
- paramedic
- nurse
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Medical emergency."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| EMERG | English | Emergency | Transportation |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: EmergencySynonyms: emergency brake (n), exigency (n), hand brake (n), parking brake (n), pinch (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Circumstance | Predicament; emergence, emergency; exigency, crisis, pinch, pass, push; occurrence; turning point. |
Difficulty | Nonplus, quandary, strait, pass, pinch, pretty pass, stress, brunt; critical situation, crisis; trial, rub, emergency, exigency, scramble. |
Eventuality | Business, concern, transaction, dealing, proceeding; circumstance, particular, casualty, accident, adventure, passage, crisis, pass, emergency, contingency, consequence; opportunity (occasion). |
Refuge | Means of escape; (escape) lifeboat, lifejacket, life buoy, swimming belt, cork jacket; parachute, plank, steppingstone; emergency landing. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm both! I'm a celebrity in an emergency. (Groundhog Day; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) Emergency water landing, 600 miles an hour: blank faces, calm as Hindu cows (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) In them you'll find: one .45 caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days concentrated emergency raisons; one drug issue containing: antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair a nylon stockings (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern and Peter George. Based on the novel 'Red Alert, aka Two Hours to Doom' by Peter George.) And you have an emergency. (The Rock; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook) Please state the nature of the medical emergency. (Star Trek: Voyager; writing credit: Douglas Day Stewart) | |
Lyrics | So urgent, emergency (Urgent; performing artist: Foreigner) Urgent, urgent, emergency (Urgent; performing artist: Foreigner) But if there's some emergency (Part-time lover; performing artist: Stevie Wonder) | |
Clever | Nothing seems to bring on an emergency as quickly as putting money aside in case of one. (references; author: unknown) Bad planning on your part does not necessarily constitute an automatic emergency on my part. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Emergency +4 (1973) Emergency! (1972) Emergency (1968) Life in Emergency Ward 10 (1959) Emergency Ward (1959) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | John Taylor, pilot for the Emergency Mosquito Control offices in North Carolina, stands beside a PHS plane. Credit: CDC. |  | Fire and emergency response personnel practice techniques for hazardous materials containment and removal. Credit: CDC. |
 | 51-L Flight Crew Emergency Egress Training. Credit: NASA. |  | WEMS - The Women's Emergency Map Service WEMS started as a joke passed to press that ran national article Although never a formal service, women functioned in many C&GS jobs during war By war's end, there was more truth to WEMS than cartoonist had visualized. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Crewman with medical emergency being evacuated by helicopter from MILLER FREEMAN. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Preliminary steps for rescue of crewman with medical emergency from MILLER FREEMAN by helicopter. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Emergency Watershed Program provided for rehabilitation of berm in Washington, Co. built as a result of flash flooding that placed homes at risk of sliding into swollen creek. Credit: Bob Nichols. |  | Chuck Leinen, NRCS engineer, talks with homeowners in Washington Co following completion of berm rehabilation needed to eliminate risk caused by flash flooding of creek directly behind housing development. Emergency Watershed Program provided the needed s. Credit: Bob Nichols. |
 | Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation Team8th Street FireBoise FrontFoothillsFour Rivers Field OfficeLSRDLower Snake River District. Credit: Ravi Miro Fry. |  | Seed warehousing operations for emergency fire rehabilitation, Fall 1999, Carson City, Nevada. Credit: Unknown. |
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| "Emergency Exit" by Elmar Beckmann Commentary: "Signs at the airport." | "Emergency" by Celia Martinez Bravo Commentary: "2000| Gabi's hands points the exit signal at the bus." |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Fire; firefighter; horn; siren; emergency; police; fireman; fireman. | | Siren; police; European; French; France; emergency. |
| Police; emergency; speeding; . | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Joseph Addison | Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency. |
Steven Wright | I filled out an application that said, "In Case Of Emergency Notify". I wrote "Doctor"...what's my mother going to do? |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | In case any such emergency should arise the Secretary General shall on the request of any Member of the League forthwith summon a meeting of the Council. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | These resources, used in emergency, seem magnificence, and are poverty |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | This is a medical emergency. (references) | |
A retinal detachment is a medical emergency. (references) | ||
A panic attack in and of itself is not an emergency. (references) | ||
Business | The focus was on modernization of imaging equipment and emergency response equipment. (references) | |
It does not interface with the emergency services or with regional traffic control schemes. (references) | ||
Universal service in Bulgaria is defined as ordinary telephone service and free use of national emergency services. (references) | ||
Children | Peru | PROMUDEH's Women's Emergency Program works to address the legal, psychological, and medical problems facing women and children who are victims of violence. (references) |
Armenia | Free children's health care is available for all children through the age of 8 for treatment of some diseases and for emergency care, but often is of poor quality, and the practice of demanding overt or concealed payment of fees for medical service continued. (references) | |
Mozambique | In addition a number of schools were destroyed or converted to emergency shelters during the floods in 2000. Newspapers frequently reported that the parents of school children had to bribe teachers or officials to enroll their children in school and that girls exchanged or were forced to exchange sex with teachers for passing grades. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Egypt | The entire group was tried in a State Security Emergency Court. (references) |
Indonesia | On June 26, 2000, the President declared a state of civil emergency for both provinces. (references) | |
Nepal | Freedom of assembly was one of the civil rights suspended under the November 26 state of emergency. (references) | |
Economic History | Eritrea | This may help family members contact you in case of an emergency. (references) |
Portugal | The area of emergency and rescue also is a good opportunity for sales. (references) | |
France | In certain emergency situations, the president may assume full powers. (references) | |
Human Rights | Ecuador | There were mass arrests during the State of Emergency in early February. (references) |
Egypt | The Emergency Law allows authorities to detain an individual without charge. (references) | |
Turkey | These provisions generally are respected outside the state of emergency region. (references) | |
Political Economy | Sudan | In 2000 the Government used the state of emergency to detain more than 100 individuals. (references) |
Indonesia | Several times he threatened to declare a state of civil emergency and dissolve the DPR. (references) | |
OMAN | They receive 28 days annual leave in addition to 9 days emergency leave and Omani holidays. (references) | |
Political Rights | Swaziland | When Parliament is not in session, the King may legislate by decree under his residual emergency powers. (references) |
India | The Supreme Court has upheld the Government's authority to suspend fundamental rights during an emergency. (references) | |
Fiji | Commander Frank Bainimarama abrogated the Constitution, implemented emergency powers, and began to rule by decree. (references) | |
Trade | Costa Rica | The 1995 reforms that enabled private banks to offer demand deposits also granted private banks access to the Central Bank discount window and emergency loan facilities. (references) |
Costa Rica | The Central Bank is authorized in emergency situations, at its discretion, to introduce and regulate the use of short-term measures to alleviate economic imbalances or liquidity crises. (references) | |
Croatia | The range of projects included: Istria Water Supply/Sewage, Emergency Reconstruction, Highway Sector Project, Farmer Support Services, Emergency Transport/Mine Clearing, Coastal Forest Reconstruction, Reconstruction Project for Eastern Slavonija. (references) | |
Travel | Kuwait | Do not wait for an emergency to develop a plan of action. (references) |
Egypt | Emergency and intensive care facilities are limited outside Cairo. (references) | |
Nigeria | Few hotels have working smoke detectors, and emergency exits are often sealed. (references) | |
Women | Malta | The Government also maintains an emergency fund and subsidizes shelters. (references) |
Kyrgyz Republic | It provides 10 days of emergency shelter, clothing, and meals for battered women as well as employment counseling and legal services. (references) | |
Poland | In August 2000, a prosecutor charged a former director of a hospital emergency ward of sexually harassing six nurses; the case continued at year's end. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Zimbabwe | Many state hospitals accepted only emergency cases during the strike. (references) |
Switzerland | The organizations provide information and counseling, and in some cases, emergency assistance. (references) | |
Austria | There is one NGO center that provides comprehensive counseling, educational services, and emergency housing to victims of trafficking. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | COWARD, n. One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Ross Perot | Well, it's basically to get everybody to come in and volunteer to help protect their community and to have a plan in case of an emergency of exactly what everybody does. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | After they shall have provided for the present emergency, it will merit their most serious labors to render tranquility with the savages permanent by creating ties of interest. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | The organization of the several corps composing the Army is such as to admit its expansion to a great extent in case of emergency, the officers carrying with them all the light which they possess to the new corps to which they might be appointed. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | With the aid of Congress, in a few years the Government will be prepared in case of emergency to put afloat a powerful navy of new ships almost as soon as old ones could be repaired. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | This emergency action, taken alone, is good--but not enough. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Our ships have the right to go to the head of the line for priority of passage in times of emergency or need. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | You have a right to the nearest emergency care if you're in an accident. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Emergency" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.26% of the time. "Emergency" is used about 3,344 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 92.26% | 3,086 | 3,039 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 7.68% | 257 | 18,451 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.06% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,344 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "emergency": accident and emergency unit ♦ computer Emergency Response Team ♦ declare a state of emergency ♦ emergency anchorage ♦ emergency barrier ♦ emergency battery ♦ emergency brake ♦ emergency break system ♦ emergency burial ♦ emergency call ♦ emergency center ♦ emergency communication ♦ emergency complement ♦ emergency conditions ♦ emergency descent ♦ emergency destruction of nuclear weapons ♦ emergency doctor ♦ emergency door ♦ emergency equipment ♦ emergency escape windows ♦ emergency establishment ♦ emergency exit ♦ emergency exposure to external radiations ♦ emergency eye fountain ♦ emergency eyewash fountain ♦ emergency fleet operating base ♦ emergency flight ♦ emergency frequency ♦ emergency funds ♦ emergency hospital ♦ emergency in war ♦ emergency landing ♦ emergency life support ♦ emergency lighting ♦ emergency location beacon ♦ emergency locator beacon ♦ emergency man ♦ emergency management system ♦ Emergency Medical Service Communication Systems ♦ emergency medical services ♦ emergency medical technician ♦ Emergency Medical Technicians ♦ Emergency Medicine ♦ emergency meeting ♦ emergency money ♦ emergency notification and personal security ♦ emergency nuclear risk ♦ emergency numbers ♦ Emergency Nursing ♦ emergency order ♦ emergency phase ♦ emergency powers ♦ emergency procedure ♦ emergency ration ♦ emergency rations ♦ emergency rescue service ♦ emergency room ♦ emergency section ♦ emergency service ♦ emergency services ♦ emergency shutdown ♦ emergency solution ♦ emergency station ♦ emergency store ♦ emergency strip ♦ emergency substitute ♦ emergency transmitter ♦ emergency treatment ♦ emergency trim system ♦ emergency unemployment compensation ♦ emergency valve ♦ emergency ward ♦ in an emergency ♦ in an emergency situation ♦ in case of emergency ♦ in time of emergency ♦ it is an emergency ♦ make an emergency landing ♦ peacetime emergency planning ♦ planned emergency exposure ♦ radiological emergency ♦ state of emergency ♦ United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "emergency": emergency-exit, emergency-feedwater, emergency-service, emergency-speak. | |
Ending with "emergency": non-emergency. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "emergency"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | krisis (crisis, depression). (various references) | |
Albanian | urgjencë (exigency, urgency), sigurimi (safety), rezervë (backup, cartridge, deposit, distance, fountain, fund, garment, hoard, leeway, margin, munition, offishness, ordinary, pool, reservation, reserve, resource, spare, stand by, stock, stockpile, store, supply), ngutësi (emergence, hastening, hurry), nevojë e ngutshme, i jashtëzakonshëm (egregious, exceeding, exceptional, exceptive, exclusive, extraordinary, heroic, inconceivable, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, powerful, prodigious, sole, stupendous, terrible, thumping, transcendent, transcendental, uncommon, unthinkable, unusual, wonderful), gjendje kritike (conjuncture). (various references) | |
Arabic | ازمة (crisis), حالة طوارئ, حاجة ملحة (demand, indigence), طارئ (adventitious, casual, contingency, fortuitous, imperious, incidental, pressing), ضرورة (call, exigency, necessity, requirement, use). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | спешен случай (panic), спешен (clamant, instant, necessitous, pressing, rush, speedy, urgent), критичен момент (hump, push), непредвиден случай (fortuity), запасен (inactive, reserve, reserved), авариен (trouble), извънреден (extra, occasional, over, relief, special, supernumerary, supplemental). (various references) | |
Chinese | 緊急事件 , 紧急状态 (Emergencies). (various references) | |
Czech | stav nouze, pohotovostní (standby), nouzová situace, naléhavý případ (exigency), naléhavá potřeba, mimořádná okolnost. (various references) | |
Danish | noedstilfaelde, noedsituation (distress), noedsfald, nødsituation (contingency). (various references) | |
Dutch | noodgeval (case of necessity, case of need), crisis (crisis, depression). (various references) | |
Esperanto | krizo (crisis, depression). (various references) | |
Faeroese | kreppa (crisis, depression). (various references) | |
Farsi | ناگه اینده (Emergence), حتمی (Categorical, Cocksure, Cretain, Emergence, Imminent, Imperative, Indispensable, Very), امرفوق العاده وغیره منتظره (Emergence), اورژانس (Emergence). (various references) | |
Finnish | vara (reserve, spare, vice-), hätätilanne, hätätila (fib, white lie). (various references) | |
French | urgence (EMERG), crise. (various references) | |
Frisian | krisis (crisis, depression). (various references) | |
German | notfall (push), notlage (crisis, exigency, pinch, plight), notstand (crisis, state of emergency). (various references) | |
Greek | έκτακτη ανάγκη. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מצב חרום, חרום, דחק (need, pressure, stress). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vészhelyzet, váratlan esemény (coup de théátre), szükséghelyzet, szükségállapot, szükség- (makeshift), kényszerhelyzet (dilemma, exigence, exigency). (various references) | |
Indonesian | keadaan darurat (exigency), darurat. (various references) | |
