Usually means: Temporary government response to crisis.
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  1. state of emergency: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. state of emergency: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. state of emergency: Collins English Dictionary
  4. state of emergency: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. state of emergency: Wiktionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (state of emergency)

noun:  An unusually difficult or dangerous situation in which a government gives itself special powers or suspends normal legal procedures so as to regain control.
noun:  A governmental decree declaring such situation.
noun:  The status quo following such declaration.

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