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EMT - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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EMT (plural EMTs)
- (emergency medical services) Initialism of emergency medical technician.
- ✤ Hypernyms: technician, first responder < worker < person
- ✤ Hyponyms: AEMT, EMT-B, EMT-P, EMT-I
- ✤ Coordinate term: EMR (“emergency medical responder”) (usually coordinate)
- ✤ Near-synonym: paramedic (sometimes broadly synonymous)
- ✤ “I am an E.M.T., and I have a tourniquet!” she shouted as she neared the crowd. “Get back!”1
- Initialism of epithelial-mesenchymal transition.
- Initialism of electrical metal tubing (“a type of conduit for electrical wiring; zinc-plated steel tubing”).
- ✤ Hypernyms: conduit, tubing
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2021 October 20, C. J. Chivers, “Fear on Cape Cod as Sharks Hunt Again”, in The New York Times , →ISSN, archived from the original on 17 February 2022: ↩
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