earthquake drill
A drill practiced in schools where people get under something and duck, cover, and…A drill practiced in schools where people get under something and duck, cover, and hold as if there were an earthquake.
» On our campus, we have earthquake drills at least once a year.
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1 sensesA drill practiced in schools where people get under something and duck, cover, and hold as if there were an earthquake.
Earthquake drills were developed in his school a week ago.
Examples
2 sentencesOn our campus, we have earthquake drills at least once a year.
Schoolchildren in New Zealand regularly undertake earthquake drills.
Forms
plural: earthquake drills| Singular | earthquake drill |
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See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.