evacuation plan

collocation in English

meaningsofevacuationandplan

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evacuation
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪˌvæk.juˈeɪ.ʃən/us
/ɪˌvæk.juˈeɪ.ʃən/
the act of moving people from a dangerous place to ...
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plan
noun
uk
/plæn/us
/plæn/
a set of decisions about how to do something in ...
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Is it the case that all these homeless children—and one sympathises with their plight—were evacuated under anevacuationplan?
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There is, of course, an emergencyevacuationplan.
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How does he expect to carry out thisevacuationplanin advance of hostilities?
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The whole success of ourevacuationplandepends on the children who are selected first.
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We hope that there will be no further eruptions, but that cannot be totally assured, so we have anevacuationplanin the event of any serious eruptions.
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The damage and loss of life which would have resulted over perhaps 170 or 190 miles would have made it impossible to carry out any kind ofevacuationplan.
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The police were now informed of the situation but theevacuationplanwas not fully effective.
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The staff then revealed their plan to the recruit: theevacuationplaninvolved construction of an advanced space teleporter.
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Toward the end, theevacuationplanis in the final stages.
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He also recommended they put together anevacuationplanfor the crowd.
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The staff had no access to a formal fireevacuationplan.
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Much of the work of the special committee was in demonstrating the need for anevacuationplanin the event of another nuclear accident.
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There was no emergencyevacuationplanand evacuation was left to the initiative of individual department heads.
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Residents were advised to have sandbags ready, ensure their emergency supplies were stocked and have anevacuationplan.
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The credit for this goes in part to local authorities for issuing a mandatory evacuation order in time for a pre-agreedevacuationplanto be carried out.
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Anevacuationplanwas implemented downstream.
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These missions also looked into the security measures envisaged for relief workers and humanitarian operations - evacuation plans and other such difficult issues.
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The effectiveness of evacuation plans for the neighbouring population of nuclear power stations is regularly tested in exercises.
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If we were to encourage hopes that camps would solve a large part of the problem, we might soon find our evacuation plans unworkable.
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The scope of evacuation plans is now under examination with the object of preparing schemes of a more permanent character.
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