"first responder" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: first responders [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} first responder (plural first responders)
  1. A member of an emergency service who is first on the scene, or among those first on the scene, at an emergency. Tags: Australia, Canada, US Categories (topical): People Translations (a member of an emergency service who is first on the scene at an emergency): pelastustyöntekijä (Finnish), ensimmäinen pelastustyöntekijä (Finnish), Ersthelfer des Rettungsdienstes [masculine] (German), mentős (Hungarian), elsősegélynyújtó (Hungarian), első/elsődleges/elsőként beavatkozó (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-first_responder-en-noun-Lt81t9p0 Disambiguation of People: 81 19 Categories (other): American English, Canadian English, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of American English: 47 53 Disambiguation of Canadian English: 47 53 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 46 54 Disambiguation of 'a member of an emergency service who is first on the scene at an emergency': 59 41
  2. A member of an emergency service trained to provide emergency medical care. Tags: Australia, Canada, US
    Sense id: en-first_responder-en-noun-d-sFgZpA Categories (other): American English, Australian English, Canadian English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of American English: 47 53 Disambiguation of Australian English: 43 57 Disambiguation of Canadian English: 47 53 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 44 56 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 46 54

Inflected forms

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