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emergency medical technician

noun

: emt

Examples of emergency medical technician in a Sentence

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The five-month, five-day-a-week intensive program provides emergency medical technician training and aims to prepare young adults for jobs in emergency response — positions such as EMTs, paramedics or firefighters. Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2025 One new program, which will train students to work as emergency medical technicians, is slated to begin early next year. Larry D. Urish, Oc Register, 25 Nov. 2025 Paider also worked at Milwaukee Area Technical College as an emergency medical technician–paramedic instructor for more than six years, the college confirmed to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Adrienne Davis, jsonline.com, 30 Oct. 2025 Among the protesters at St. James Park in San Jose was Isabella Moreno, 20, who moved to San Jose a week ago from the Central Valley and is searching for a job as an emergency medical technician. Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for emergency medical technician

Word History

First Known Use

1980, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of emergency medical technician was in 1980

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“Emergency medical technician.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/emergency%20medical%20technician. Accessed 9 Dec. 2025.

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emergency medical technician

noun
: emt

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