| 单词 | fire department |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfire department fire department n. (a) (chiefly U.S.) a body of firefighters; (in later use) an agency or organization charged with fighting fires in a particular jurisdiction and typically having control of a number of fire stations; †(b) a department that deals with fire insurance (obsolete); cf. fire company n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > extinguishing fire > [noun] > fire-fighting > fire-brigade fire company1737 fire department1798 fire brigade1832 fire service1843 fire command1891 1798 Laws State N.Y. (21st Sess.) xl. 332 All such persons as now are, or hereafter shall be, engineers of the fire department, or fire-men, belonging to any of the fire engines of the city of New-York, shall be..ordained, constituted and declared to be..a body politic, in fact and in name, by the name of the ‘Fire Department of the city of New-York’. 1823 Manch. Guardian 4 Oct. 1 (heading) British Commercial Insurance Company..Life Department..Fire Department. 1838 Scotsman 10 Mar. 3 In the Fire Department also the business of the [North British Insurance] Company is steadily improving. 1855 H. Clarke New Dict. Eng. Lang. Fire department, body of firemen. 1906 Pop. Mech. June 620/2 The mains were broken by the shock, thus rendering the fire department helpless except along the water front, where salt water was available from the bay. 2007 Cincinnati Mag. May 180/2 ‘Where's the fire department?’ ‘They're on their way.’ < as lemmas |
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