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EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM

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• EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM (noun)
The noun EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM has 1 sense:

1. a federal warning system that is activated by FEMA; enables the President to take over the United States airwaves to warn the whole country of major catastrophic events

Familiarity information: EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.

• EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A federal warning system that is activated by FEMA; enables the President to take over the United States airwaves to warn the whole country of major catastrophic events

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

EAS; Emergency Alert System

Instance hypernyms:

alert; alerting (a warning serves to make you more alert to danger)

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(Croatian proverb)

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