"fight fires" meaning in All languages combined

See fight fires on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Audio: en-au-fight fires.ogg Forms: fights fires [present, singular, third-person], fighting fires [participle, present], fought fires [participle, past], fought fires [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|fight<,,fought> fires}} fight fires (third-person singular simple present fights fires, present participle fighting fires, simple past and past participle fought fires)
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fight, fire.
    Sense id: en-fight_fires-en-verb-N~CU4i6r Categories (other): Firefighting Disambiguation of Firefighting: 72 28
  2. (idiomatic) To deal with urgent matters and minor emergencies rather than longer-term work. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-fight_fires-en-verb-FzvkIqrI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 84 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 16 84 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 12 88

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