fire brigade

1. 1.

   a private or temporary organization of individuals equipped to fight fires

   Synonymsfire company

   Broaderorganization
2. 2.

   British name for a fire department

   Broaderfire department

Questions about fire brigade

What does fire brigade mean?

fire brigade means "a private or temporary organization of individuals equipped to fight fires". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for fire brigade?

Close synonyms include fire company. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fire brigade a common word?

fire brigade is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.