semiautomatic firearm

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   an autoloader that fires only one shot at each pull of the trigger

   Broaderautoloader

   NarrowerGarand riflesemiautomatic pistol

Questions about semiautomatic firearm

What does semiautomatic firearm mean?

semiautomatic firearm means "an autoloader that fires only one shot at each pull of the trigger".

Is semiautomatic firearm a common word?

semiautomatic firearm 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.