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emergency service

emergency service noun: any public service that deals with emergencies; especially the police, fire, ambulance, or lifeboat services.

Noun

emergency service (plural emergency services)

  1. Any public service that deals with emergencies; especially the police, fire, ambulance, or lifeboat services.
    • Only when one has seen a Control Office at first-hand does one realise the vast amount of unsparing but largely unsung work that is behind the eventual publication, perhaps, of a paragraph in this journal's "Motive Power Miscellany" recording the appearance, within hours of the complete blockage of...1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 133

Forms of emergency service

pluralemergency services

Questions about emergency service

What does emergency service mean?
Emergency service means any public service that deals with emergencies; especially the police, fire, ambulance, or lifeboat services.
What part of speech is emergency service?
Emergency service is a noun.
What is the plural of emergency service?
The plural of emergency service is emergency services.

Words near emergency service in the dictionary

  1. emergency powers
  2. emergency response
  3. emergency responses
  4. emergency room
  5. emergency rooms
  6. emergency service
  7. emergency services
  8. emergency stairs
  9. emergency stop
  10. emergency transponder
  11. emergency transponders

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