Usually means: Extinguishing fires, rescuing lives, safety.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word firefighting:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. firefighting: Merriam-Webster
  2. firefighting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. firefighting: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Firefighting, firefighting: Wordnik
  5. firefighting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. firefighting: Wiktionary
  7. firefighting: Dictionary.com
  8. Firefighting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. firefighting: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. firefighting: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. firefighting: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. firefighting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Extinguishing a fire.
noun:  The profession of being a firefighter.
noun:  (by extension, figuratively) Solving an urgent problem.

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