Definition of firefighting in English:
firefighting
noun ˈfʌɪəˌfʌɪtɪŋˈfaɪ(ə)rˌfaɪdɪŋ
mass noun1The action or process of extinguishing fires, as a person's job.
Example sentencesExamples
- They provide or control such essential services as water, electricity, policing, and firefighting.
- The fabric is ideal for uniforms and apparel for occupations such as firefighting.
- Accidents are an unavoidable by-product of firefighting.
- A session in firefighting was also held with many of the seminar attendees performing well.
- The focus of the unit's recent annual training was structural firefighting.
- In the early 1980s I was injured and I wasn't fit enough to go back to firefighting.
- And the strong winds are making firefighting difficult.
- We were carrying out aggressive firefighting last night but are now monitoring the position there.
- Firefighting in the present round of fires is costing about $15 million a day.
- The full resources were now readily available and offensive firefighting began.
- Primarily designed for firefighting, Beriev also produces a passenger version.
- This is certainly true of firefighting on naval vessels.
- Firefighting is a brotherhood that exists nowhere else in our society.
- Firefighting was therefore at the top of the pecking order of Forest Service job prestige.
- And, once he gets elected, he promises to make a new study of Montreal firefighting and a fire prevention campaign.
- And with its inherent risks, firefighting is certainly not a job for the faint-hearted.
- The fundamental of good use of aircraft for firefighting is to dispatch early and keep the fire from spreading.
- He said, "In 28 years of firefighting I've never seen anything like it."
- Long hours are dangerous in any industry, and especially so in firefighting.
- Rooms on the second floor of the museum show different aspects of firefighting or fire prevention.
2(in business) the practice of dealing with problems as they arise rather than planning strategically to avoid them.
Example sentencesExamples
- My day to day job involves dealing with customers and general firefighting and troubleshooting!
- You should see them in Edinburgh, we spend most of the time firefighting their stress levels.
- But business owners who use agencies on an ongoing basis are often left constantly firefighting.
- Mr Catterall said the staff were firefighting the whole time; unsurprisingly the Ward was not a popular one.
- At the moment we are just constantly firefighting.
- Sometimes I feel the business has developed purely through firefighting the problem at hand.
Definition of firefighting in US English:
firefighting
nounˈfaɪ(ə)rˌfaɪdɪŋˈfī(ə)rˌfīdiNG
1The action or process of extinguishing fires, as a person's job.
Example sentencesExamples
- They provide or control such essential services as water, electricity, policing, and firefighting.
- Primarily designed for firefighting, Beriev also produces a passenger version.
- Accidents are an unavoidable by-product of firefighting.
- The focus of the unit's recent annual training was structural firefighting.
- And the strong winds are making firefighting difficult.
- In the early 1980s I was injured and I wasn't fit enough to go back to firefighting.
- The fundamental of good use of aircraft for firefighting is to dispatch early and keep the fire from spreading.
- The fabric is ideal for uniforms and apparel for occupations such as firefighting.
- Firefighting was therefore at the top of the pecking order of Forest Service job prestige.
- Firefighting is a brotherhood that exists nowhere else in our society.
- He said, "In 28 years of firefighting I've never seen anything like it."
- And with its inherent risks, firefighting is certainly not a job for the faint-hearted.
- Rooms on the second floor of the museum show different aspects of firefighting or fire prevention.
- And, once he gets elected, he promises to make a new study of Montreal firefighting and a fire prevention campaign.
- We were carrying out aggressive firefighting last night but are now monitoring the position there.
- This is certainly true of firefighting on naval vessels.
- Firefighting in the present round of fires is costing about $15 million a day.
- The full resources were now readily available and offensive firefighting began.
- A session in firefighting was also held with many of the seminar attendees performing well.
- Long hours are dangerous in any industry, and especially so in firefighting.
2(in business) the practice of dealing with problems as they arise rather than planning strategically to avoid them.
Example sentencesExamples
- Mr Catterall said the staff were firefighting the whole time; unsurprisingly the Ward was not a popular one.
- You should see them in Edinburgh, we spend most of the time firefighting their stress levels.
- But business owners who use agencies on an ongoing basis are often left constantly firefighting.
- At the moment we are just constantly firefighting.
- Sometimes I feel the business has developed purely through firefighting the problem at hand.
- My day to day job involves dealing with customers and general firefighting and troubleshooting!