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May Day

n.

  1. May 1, observed in the United States, Canada, and parts of Western Europe in celebration of the coming of spring.
  2. May 1, observed as a holiday especially in socialist countries in honor of labor and labor organizations.

Mayday is an emergency code-wordused internationally as a distress-signalin voice-procedureradiocommunications. It list-of-french-words-and-phrases-used-by-english-speakersvenez m'aider, or m'aidez, meaning "come (and) help me".mayday-distress-signalIt is used to signal a life-threatening emergency by many groups, such as policeforces, aviator, firefighter, and transportation organisations. The call is always given three times in a row ("mayday-mayday-mayday") to prevent mistaking it for some similar-sounding phrase under noisy conditions and to distinguish an actual mayday call from a message about a mayday call.

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