emergency service en · NOUN
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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 a main line, of many of its trains, passenger and freight, on routes quite foreign to them; and of effective emergency services either side of the disaster area.
1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 133:
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| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| emergency services | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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pl służba ratownictwa (public service that deals with emergencies) · sv räddningstjänst (public service that deals with emergencies) · hu készenléti szervek (public service that deals with emergencies) · de Bereitschaft (public service that deals with emergencies) · da beredskab (public service that deals with emergencies) · sv jourtjänst (public service that deals with emergencies) · de Notdienst (public service that deals with emergencies) · hu segélyhívó szolgálat (public service that deals with emergencies) · da nødberedskab (public service that deals with emergencies) · nl hulpdienst (public service that deals with emergencies) · fi pelastustoimi (public service that deals with emergencies) · da redningstjeneste (public service that deals with emergencies) · da alarmberedskab (public service that deals with emergencies) · is björgunarsveit (public service that deals with emergencies) · es turno (public service that deals with emergencies) · hu segélyszolgálat (public service that deals with emergencies) · es servicio de emergencia (public service that deals with emergencies) · af nooddiens (public service that deals with emergencies) · de Bereitschaftsdienst (public service that deals with emergencies) · fr service de secours (public service that deals with emergencies) · hu mentőszolgálat/mentők, tűzoltóság, rendőrség (public service that deals with emergencies)