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firefighter

 noun
     
firefighter
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fire‧fight‧er also fire fighter [countable]
BO someone whose job is to stop fires burning [↪ fireman]
WORD FOCUS: fire WORD FOCUS: fire
a big fire that causes a lot of damage: blaze, inferno, conflagration literary
someone whose job is to put out fires: firefighter, fireman, the fire department American English, the fire brigade British Englishfire

➔ See also fire
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