I. hae‧mor‧rhage¹ British English, hemorrhage American English /ˈhemərɪdʒ/ noun [uncountable and countable]

1. a serious medical condition in which a person bleeds a lot, sometimes inside their body:
He died of a massive brain haemorrhage.

2. when a company or country loses a lot of money or people very quickly
haemorrhage of
a haemorrhage of jobs from the region

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II. haemorrhage² British English, hemorrhage American English verb

1. [intransitive] to lose a lot of blood in a very short time

2. [transitive] to lose a lot of something over a short period of time, such as money or jobs:
The once prosperous town has hemorrhaged manufacturing jobs over the last 15 years.

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III. hem‧or‧rhage /ˈhemərɪdʒ/ noun [uncountable and countable]
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: French; Origin: hémorrhagie, from Latin haemorrhagia, from Greek, from haima (HEMO-) + -rrhagia 'bursting out, flow']
the American spelling of haemorrhage

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