FIRE DEPARTMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fire department mean? 

• FIRE DEPARTMENT (noun)
  The noun FIRE DEPARTMENT has 1 sense:

1. the department of local government responsible for preventing and extinguishing fires

  Familiarity information: FIRE DEPARTMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIRE DEPARTMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The department of local government responsible for preventing and extinguishing fires

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("fire department" is a kind of...):

department of local government; local department (a permanent department created to perform the work of a local government)

Meronyms (members of "fire department"):

fire-eater; fire fighter; firefighter; fireman (a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fire department"):

fire brigade (British name for a fire department)