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2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44
In this section, Lifehacker finds out the meanings of not the simplest words and tells where they came from.
History
Previously, the term was used mainly by sailors. An emergency was announced when it was necessary to complete a general ship mission by the forces of the entire crew. For example, docking a ship, unloading or loading a ship, or general cleaning. Emergency work also included the preparation of the ship for battle, the fighting itself and the rescue of the ship by fire or other alarm.
Today the word is used in a different sense. In colloquial speech, work that needs to be done collectively and urgently is called a rush job. That is, if the boss ran into the office shouting: “We have an emergency!”, Employees should get together and quickly finish the task. But to say to friends: “I'm late, here is an emergency at work”, if only the annual report is hanged on you and none of your colleagues helps, is not entirely correct. Better to say that you have a parking lot, so you don't have time for a meeting.
Usage examples
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- What is this emergency work? I asked another officer.
“This is when everyone whistles upstairs,” he answered, and got down to emergency work.
Ivan Goncharov, Frigate Pallada.
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“But now the emergency was over, there was nothing to do - no party work at all until tomorrow morning. He could spend six hours in the shelter and another nine in his bed.
George Orwell, 1984.
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