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Emergency Preparedness & Response Handbook
www.crs.orgThe Merriam Webster dictionary defines disaster as “a sudden calamitous event bringing great damage, loss, or destruction.” We would add to this that a disaster can also be slow-onset such as with droughts. The word emergency most often refers to the results of such an event or events. The Merriam Webster dictionary
What is Plagiarism
www.hunter.cuny.eduAccording to the Merriam-Webster OnLine Dictionary, to “plagiarize” means . 1) to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own 2) to use (another's production) without crediting the source 3) to commit literary theft 4) to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.
Guide to Pronunciation - Merriam-Webster
www.merriam-webster.comGuide to Pronunciation Pronunciation is not an intrinsic component of the dic-tionary. For some languages, such as Spanish, Swahili, and Finnish, the correspondence between orthography and pronunciation is so close that a dictionary need only spell a word correctly to indicate its pronunciation. Modern