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Definition of Fire company
1. Noun. A private or temporary organization of individuals equipped to fight fires.
Definition of Fire company
1. Noun. (context: firefighting US) An organization whose purpose is to extinguish fires. ¹
2. Noun. (context: firefighting US) A single emergency response unit and its personnel within a fire department ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fire Company
Literary usage of Fire company
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1894)
"In later days they changed their names as follows : the first became the Franklin
fire company No. 6, whose house stood on Main, above Franklin Street; ..."
2. Essays in the Earlier History of American Corporations by Joseph Stancliffe Davis (1917)
"In May, 1787, the Maryland assembly chartered The Baltimore insurance fire-company,
the first to be organized on a joint stock basis. ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1819)
"On Christmas- day, 1816, the premises were Drew v. the London Imperial Fire
Company.—This case excited peculiar interest, and the Court was crowded to ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1921)
"183) the company was incorporated by the Legislature under the name of the Fire
Company of the City of Atlanta. They were to elect their own ..."