fire department

1. 1.

   the department of local government responsible for preventing and extinguishing fires

   Broaderlocal department

   Narrowerfire brigade

Questions about fire department

What does fire department mean?

fire department means "the department of local government responsible for preventing and extinguishing fires".

Is fire department a common word?

fire department 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.