emergency exit

1. 1.

   a stairway (often on the outside of a building) that permits exit in the case of fire or other emergency

   Synonymsfire escape

   Broaderstairway

Questions about emergency exit

What does emergency exit mean?

emergency exit means "a stairway (often on the outside of a building) that permits exit in the case of fire or other emergency".

What is another word for emergency exit?

Close synonyms include fire escape. 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 exit a common word?

emergency exit 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.