(UK) Call the emergency service to extinguish a fire.
(UK) Call the emergency service to extinguish a fire.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(US) Call the emergency service that specializes in extinguishing fires.
(firefighting, UK, Irish) An organization, often part of a local government, whose purpose is preventing and putting out fires.
(military, US) A trained unit that can be rapidly deployed to deal with any difficult situation.
(firefighting, US) A group of people within a corporation or industrial site, organized for the purpose of extinguishing fires, usually in addition to their normal job.
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To extinguish.