emergency service
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.65 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any public service that deals with emergencies; especially the police, fire, ambulance, or lifeboat services.
Example Sentences
- "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."