extraordinary measures
Extreme crisis responses
Extraordinary measures are actions beyond normal procedures, taken when standard approaches prove insufficient.
The phrase appears in medical contexts for extreme interventions to prolong life, in government for emergency powers, and in business for drastic cost-cutting or restructuring: The company took extraordinary measures to avoid bankruptcy.
The term implies urgency and deviation from routine.
- disaster reliefAssistance following catastrophic events
- all hands on deckEveryone must participate
- life supportSystems maintaining vital functions
- resuscitationRestoring vital functions
- heroic sacrificeDying to save others
emergency funding · martial law · emergency declarations · evacuation plans · executive orders · nuclear option · code blue · curfews · ventilator · pulling the plug · medical ethics · judicial review · contingency planning · humanitarian aid · quantitative easing · advanced directives · wartime powers · constitutional amendments
extraordinary measuresbusiness as usual
Continuation of normal routine
standard practices · watchful waiting · half measures · benign neglect
extraordinary measuresstandard operating procedure
Prescribed method for tasks
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