EMS

American  

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).

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EMS ¹ British  

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

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Ems ² British  

/ 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)

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Example Sentences

Investors dazzled by the pricing power of Western Digital and Seagate may like the electronics manufacturing services, or EMS, industry.

From Barron's • Dec. 29, 2025

About a year earlier, the EMS service in Kirkpatrick’s North Carolina county had begun a blood-transfusion program, administering blood to the most critical patients before they arrived at a hospital.

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2025

A BlackFly painted in EMS livery waited for me in the silvery grass.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2025

Outside, kids waiting to board their buses formed an aisle that led to the rear of the EMS unit.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman