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EMS

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. Initialism of emergency medical service or emergency medical services, an organization, often part of a local government, whose purpose is to provide emergency prehospital care to the public; the care that it provides.
  2. A river in northwestern Germany.
  3. A diminutive of the female given names Emma or Emily.
  4. Alternative letter-case form of ems.
    alt-of
  5. Initialism of express mail service, a type of international express mail services.
  6. Initialism of electronics manufacturing service, a type of OEM (original equipment manufacturer) service.
  7. Initialism of Expanded Memory Specification.
  8. Initialism of environmental management system.
  9. Initialism of eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome.

Equivalents

Françaisems

Examples

““Training to be a paramedic.” “EMS? For real? You want⟳ to scrape drunks off the sidewalk for a living?” “I want⟳ to do something that matters, if that’s what you mean⟳.””
“But EMS workers present⟳ a unique problem over other health care workers who are based in hospitals and clinics, they often are coming into people’s homes, Barzilay said, adding that they often respond⟳ to calls from the elderly or immunocompromised.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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