EMS

abbreviation

1. emergency medical service.

2. Digital Technology.,  enhanced message service: a system for sending long or formatted text messages, images, music, etc., from one cell phone to another.

3. European Monetary System.

4. express mail service: an international service offered by the postal operators of the Universal Postal Union (UPU).

EMS

¹

abbreviation

1. European Monetary System

2. enhanced messaging service: a system used for sending text messages containing special text formatting, animations, etc, to and from mobile phones

Ems

²

/ ɛmz /

noun

1. a town in W Germany, in the Rhineland-Palatinate: famous for the Ems Telegram (1870), Bismarck's dispatch that led to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War. Pop: 9666 (2003 est)

2. a river in W Germany, rising in the Teutoburger Wald and flowing generally north to the North Sea. Length: about 370 km (230 miles)

Example Sentences

At first the EMS took me to the hospital.

From Slate

Numbers from the U.K. show that the figures are even worse for EMS responders, with whom firefighters usually work closely.

From Slate

“Mr. Park was transported by EMS to a local hospital and subsequently pronounced deceased by hospital personnel.”

From Los Angeles Times

First responders “attempted life saving measures” until EMS officers arrived.

From Los Angeles Times

Marc Bashoor, former chief of Prince George’s County Fire/EMS Department in Maryland, who teaches leadership to firefighters across the country, said vacancies create more vacancies, because “everybody gets psychologically and physically tired of working.”

From Los Angeles Times