| 单词 | fire company |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfire company fire company n. originally and chiefly U.S. (a) a fire insurance company; (b) a company of people responsible for putting out fires; a fire brigade.Before the 19th cent., the two senses were closely linked, as fire insurance companies formed and employed their own fire brigades, who would only provide a service to customers of the company. Now the term applies chiefly to sense (b); sense (a) usually only occurs in the proper names of insurance companies. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > insurance > [noun] > insurance company (specific) fire office1684 fire company1737 life office1799 life company1806 Re1952 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > extinguishing fire > [noun] > fire-fighting > fire-brigade fire company1737 fire department1798 fire brigade1832 fire service1843 fire command1891 1737 Daily Post 14 Sept. The Fire Companies in an especial Manner always direct their Engines to preserve such Houses as are insured in their respective Offices. 1744 Pennsylvania. Gaz. 14 Dec. 4/2 The Union Fire-Company of Philadelphia. 1789 Hist. Rev. N. Amer. I. 181 Insurance offices of almost every kind are opened here. Insurance Fire Companies have been lately established. 1849 E. Chamberlain Indiana Gazetteer 373 There are in the town..two fire companies and engines. 1880 Harper's Mag. July 208/2 Several of the members belonged to the volunteer fire-companies, then in the height of their glory. 1915 Cincinnati Ann. Rep. 1914 343 Temporary quarters have been provided for Fire Company No. 54. 1988 A. Cote & P. Bugbee Princ. Fire Protection i. 6 Consolidation of the fire companies in London in 1833 into the London Fire Engine Establishment. 2007 Reading (Pa.) Eagle (Nexis) 14 Sept. Offers from local fire companies..to loan engines, firefighter gear and equipment have been coming in to Schuylkill Hose Fire Company. 2013 A. Mohun Risk i. i. 28 The Massachusetts Mutual Fire Company..reserved the right not to pay if ‘it should be proved that the insured purposely burnt the property’. < as lemmas |
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