RESCUE PARTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rescue party mean? 

• RESCUE PARTY (noun)
  The noun RESCUE PARTY has 1 sense:

1. a party of rescuers

  Familiarity information: RESCUE PARTY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESCUE PARTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A party of rescuers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("rescue party" is a kind of...):

company; party (a band of people associated temporarily in some activity)

 Context examples 

The rescue party had arrived.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Their dark, angry glances at the woods from which we had come, and the frequent repetition of the word Doda, made it clear enough that this was a rescue party who had set forth to save or revenge the old chief's son, for such we gathered that the youth must be.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)