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firefighter

or fire fight·er

[ fahyuhr-fahy-ter ]

noun

  1. a person who fights destructive fires.


firefighter

/ ˈڲɪəˌڲɪə /

noun

  1. a person who fights fires, usually a public employee or trained volunteer
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Other Word Forms

  • ھfiԲ noun adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of firefighter1

First recorded in 1900–05; fire + fighter
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Medics from the nearby surgery ran to Harry's aid, firefighters used a ladder as a makeshift stretcher to take him to a nearby shop from where the Great North Air Ambulance took him to hospital.

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About half the new hires would be firefighters, in a department of just under 3,250 firefighters.

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City Administrative Officer Matt Szabo, the top municipal budget analyst, said the spending plan would provide the fire department with money to hire an additional 227 employees, roughly half of them firefighters.

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The plane from Minneapolis skidded along the runway with flames visible and came to a halt upside down as firefighters rushed in.

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Rick Caruso may have been able to protect his property with private firefighters, but middle-class and working people received no benefit from this at all.

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firefightˈھˌھپԲ