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A.Word.A.Day--alarum

alarum (a-LAH-ruhm) noun

A warning or an alarm, especially a call to arms.

[Middle English alarom, variant of alarm, alarm.]

"The latest alarum comes in a report from the Office of Technology Assessment, an advisory arm of Congress, called `Multinationals and the National Interest: Playing by Different Rules.'" Susan Dentzer, Meet the new economic bogymen, U.S. News & World Report, 18 Oct 1993.

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