emergency alert system

1. 1.

   a federal warning system that is activated by FEMA; enables the President to take over the United States airwaves to warn the whole country of major catastrophic events

   SynonymsEAS

   Broaderalert

Questions about emergency alert system

What does emergency alert system mean?

emergency alert system means "a federal warning system that is activated by FEMA; enables the President to take over the United States airwaves to warn the whole country of major catastrophic events".

What is another word for emergency alert system?

Close synonyms include EAS. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is emergency alert system a common word?

emergency alert system is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.