direct fire

1. 1.

   fire delivered on a target that is visible to the person aiming it

   Broaderfire

Questions about direct fire

What does direct fire mean?

direct fire means "fire delivered on a target that is visible to the person aiming it".

Is direct fire a common word?

direct fire is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.