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first aid
noun
- emergency aid or treatment given to someone injured, suddenly ill, etc., before regular medical services arrive or can be reached.
first aid
noun
- immediate medical assistance given in an emergency
- ( as modifier )
first-aid box
- (in Barbados) a small shop that sells domestic items after hours
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Other Words From
- first-aid adjective
- first-aider noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of first aid1
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Example Sentences
My only real expenses have been things like first-aid kits, water-purification tablets, batteries, walkie talkies and the like.
The marathon is a 26-mile-long feeding, hydrating, first-aid, and security system.
Forerunner of the many first-aid classes to come was that hour of Mabel's, and made memorable by one thing she said.
Here I was given a first-aid dressing and immediately after carried away to an old-fashioned village behind the lines.
As she left for the first-aid cabinet, Houston thought bleakly to himself: Harris was framed.
Their wounds—three, four, or five days old—have yet received no attention save the primitive first-aid of the battlefield.
Instead, he carried several canteens of water and his blouse was stuffed with first-aid bandages.
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