Meanings
- not comparableNot an emergency.
a nonemergency situation
1 more example
Rupak says that 45 percent of his clients undergo nonemergency, nonelective surgeries (such as knee, shoulder, back, and hip operations), while 30 percent have cosmetic procedures (tummy tucks, breast enlargements, and facelifts.)
2008 October, Mark Jenkins, “Need surgery? Call a travel agent”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 152
plural nonemergencies
- Something that is not an emergency
That's the number for nonemergencies.
1988 November 18, David Allen Jones, “Something Stupid”, in Chicago Reader
Origin
- Englishnon-
- Latinēmergō
- Latinemergens
- Englishemergency
- Englishnonemergency
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