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View synonyms for fire company
fire company
noun
- a company of firefighters.
- a fire-insurance company.
fire company
noun
- an insurance company selling policies relating to fire risk
- 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.
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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.
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Members of Hecla fire company will please take notice of trade.
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The Fire Company had disbanded, and nearly every one had grown rich enough to own a shot-gun.
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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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