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View synonyms for fire company

fire company

noun

  1. a company of firefighters.
  2. a fire-insurance company.


fire company

noun

  1. an insurance company selling policies relating to fire risk
  2. an organized body of firemen


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Word History and Origins

Origin of fire company1

An Americanism dating back to 1730–40

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Example Sentences

A fire company was out trying its engine and hoses, and followed of course by a squad of the idle and unwashed.

But the other fire company thought there really was a fire, an' they come out with their engine an' begun to squirt on the house.

Members of Hecla fire company will please take notice of trade.

The Fire Company had disbanded, and nearly every one had grown rich enough to own a shot-gun.

A spell ago—'long in the fall, I guess it was—I was over to Alton, an' there was a fire company paradin'.

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