emergency measure
Urgent contingency plan
An emergency measure is an action taken in response to an urgent situation, often bypassing normal procedures or deliberation.
Governments invoke emergency measures during crises—natural disasters, pandemics, economic collapse—to act quickly: The city enacted emergency measures to evacuate coastal residents.
The term implies temporary necessity rather than permanent policy, though such measures sometimes outlast the emergencies that justified them.
- crisisDecisive dangerous moment
- crisis managementHandling urgent threatening situations
- contingencyUncertain possible event
- stopgapTemporary substitute measure
- band-aid solutionSuperficial fix masking deeper problems
lockdown · shelter in place · evacuation · first responders · curfew · rationing · quarantine · martial law · triage · bailout · damage control · shutdown · rescue · disaster relief · intervention · urgent · all hands on deck · drastic
- desperate measureslast resort, desperate plea, desperation move, last ditch, last chance
emergency measurebusiness as usual
Continuation of normal routine
standard practice · regular procedure · scheduled maintenance
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