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event
noun
    1. Something that occurs or happens; an incident, especially a significant one.
      Thesaurus: occurrence, experience, happening, incident, circumstance, situation, occasion, development, episode, case.
    2. An item in a programme of sports, etc.
Idiom: at all events (in any event)
    In any case; whatever happens.
Idiom: in either event
    No matter which (of two things or possibilities, etc) happens.
Idiom: in the event
    In the end; as it happened, happens or may happen.
Idiom: in the event of something (in the event that something)
    If it occurs.
      Example: in the event of a power cut
      Example: in the event that power fails
Idiom: in that event
    If that occurs.
Etymology: 16c: from Latin eventus result or event.



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