Pronunciations (4)
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/ɪˈmɜːd͡ʒɪŋ/
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/ɪˈmɝd͡ʒɪŋ/
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ɪˈmɝd͡ʒɪŋ
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iˈmɜːd͡ʒɪŋ
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- GB
Adjective
Becoming prominent; emergent; rising.
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America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Noun
Emergence.
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We must endeavour to realize a succession of gradual sinkings or depressions into deep water, alternating with gradual emergings into shallows, and eventually a gradual continued lifting of the whole district[…]
Adjective
coming to maturity
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the rising generation
coming into existence
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an emergent republic