fire department Meaning of "fire department"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) the department of local government responsible for preventing and extinguishing fires

Usage(s):

  1. The fire department didn't like the narrow streets.
  2. At Verizon, where a worker threw on a New York fire department jacket to go save people.
  3. Mychal Judge, the fire department chaplain, was heading toward the towers when he passed Giuliani.
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