"exchange of fire" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2002, William Alexander Binny Douglas, Roger Flynn Sarty, No Higher Purpose, page 98:",
          "text": "It was the RCN's first exchange of fire with the enemy during the Second World War.",
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          "ref": "2010, Stephen Banks, A Polite Exchange of Bullets, page 253:",
          "text": "The duellists met at ten paces, and at the first exchange of fire Mr C. was slightly wounded.",
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          "text": "A man's response to the threat of gunplay bore far more meaning than the exchange of fire itself.",
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        "The act of shooting at each other by antagonists armed with guns."
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          "word": "laukaustenvaihto"
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          "word": "перестре́лка"
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