I. hae ‧ mor ‧ rhage 1 BrE AmE British English , hemorrhage American English /ˈhem ə rɪdʒ/ noun [uncountable and countable]
1 . a serious medical condition in which a person ↑ bleed s 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
II. haemorrhage 2 BrE AmE 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.
III. hem ‧ or ‧ rhage /ˈhem ə rɪdʒ/ BrE AmE 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