firefighting technique
- noun
- /ˈfaɪərˌfaɪtɪŋ tɛkˈniːk/
- Specialized
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técnica de extinción de incendios
- In her training, she learned various firefighting techniques for handling different types of fires.
Examples
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The firefighters used a new firefighting technique to control the large blaze efficiently.
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Before the advent of modern firefighting techniques, the natural burn-regeneration cycle was set at about 75-100 years.
Academic text (2012) -
The documentary highlighted innovative firefighting techniques that improve safety and effectiveness on the front lines.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'firefighting' (the activity of extinguishing or preventing the spread of fires) with 'technique' (a method or skill), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer it refers to a method used in firefighting. This is a straightforward noun–noun compound with no idiomatic or metaphorical shift and follows common compositional patterns cross-linguistically.
Etymology
Firefighting technique comes from the clear image of firefighters fighting flames with hoses, ladders and water, and technique simply means the way they do it. So the phrase means a special method 'to put out' or control fires.
