emergency meeting
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- noun
- /ɪˈmɜrdʒənsi ˈmiːtɪŋ/
- The EU ministers have agreed to an emergency meeting.
- call an emergency meeting
- convene an emergency meeting
- hold an emergency meeting
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- Iran's Supreme Council is holding an emergency meeting.
- Yeah, that was a COBRA meeting, the first emergency meeting ever COBRA.
Examples
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Arab foreign ministers stand for a moment of silence during an emergency meeting in Cairo on November 17, 2012.
Blog text (4) -
The school board recently held an emergency meeting to discuss the urgent budget cuts.
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The UN has called for an emergency meeting...
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I'm sorry I had to call this emergency meeting.
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Mr. Palmer has asked that you attend the emergency meeting today.
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She called an emergency meeting.
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The UN's Security Council held an emergency meeting on the conflict.
Blog text (19) -
In response, the bank attempted to convene an emergency meeting of the shareholders.
Academic text (1996) -
Chelsea called an emergency meeting for tomorrow, and there's a lot riding on this Allied deal.
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Later that night, news presidents from the three networks and CNN huddled in an emergency meeting in New York.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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A meeting held in addition to regular meetings to deal with urgent or important matters
Antonyms
How Urgent
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and predictably composed from 'emergency' (urgent situation) + 'meeting' (a gathering), so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand it as a meeting convened for urgent matters. This is a common, cross-linguistic compositional pattern (urgent + gathering) and follows standard English noun-noun modification, making it clearly transparent.
Etymology
Emergency meeting paints a simple picture: when a sudden emergency happens, people call a quick meeting to deal with the problem. That's why it means a meeting called quickly to handle an 'urgent' issue.