fire drill

1. 1.

   an exercise intended to train people in duties and escape procedures to be followed in case of fire

   Broaderexercise

Questions about fire drill

What does fire drill mean?

fire drill means "an exercise intended to train people in duties and escape procedures to be followed in case of fire".

Is fire drill a common word?

fire drill 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.