fire company

1. 1.

   a private or temporary organization of individuals equipped to fight fires

   Synonymsfire brigade

   Broaderorganization

Questions about fire company

What does fire company mean?

fire company means "a private or temporary organization of individuals equipped to fight fires".

What is another word for fire company?

Close synonyms include fire brigade. 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 company a common word?

fire company 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.