Emergency and Special

Emergency

Emergency noun - A time or state of affairs requiring prompt or decisive action.

Special and emergency are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Special" instead an adjective "Emergency".

Nearby Words: emergence, emergent

Special

Special adjective - Being the one or ones of a class with no other members.

Emergency and special are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Emergency" instead an adjective "Special".

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • Emergency Broadcast Weather warnings and other emergency messages such as the death of someone in the royal family are done through news special reports.
  • Instead they are special services contractors tied into a city's emergency-response department, and most of Hope/Astra's action-scenes start with a summons from Dispatch.
  • Contaminated people—alive, injured, or dead, and sometimes including your own emergency personnel—must be decontaminated in a special fire apparatus.
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