rescue party
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2.7
- noun
- /ˈrɛskju ˈpɑrti/
:
grupo de rescate
- After the avalanche, a rescue party was quickly organized to search for survivors.
- send a rescue party
- find a rescue party
- rescue party tries to save
Examples
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The only sane course now is to get back to the plane as quickly as we can and sweat it out until the rescue party arrives.
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Colonel, we must send a rescue party at once.
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So where are the rescue parties, huh?
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We were about to send out a rescue party.
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A rescue party that may never find us.
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We'll mount a rescue party!
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I'm sure a rescue party will come looking for us.
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There's a rescue party on the way up there now.
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If I don't hear from you by morning, I'll send a rescue party.
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And two days after the fire, a rescue party found Serena wandering in the ruins, calling for her dead brothers and sisters.
Synonyms
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2.6
A group of people who look for someone who is missing
A group of people who carry injured or sick people on stretchers during emergencies
Antonyms
How Large
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a group organized to rescue someone' is directly derivable from combining 'rescue' (the act of saving) with 'party' (a contingent or group). This noun–noun composition follows a common, transparent English pattern and is conceptually parallel in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand it.
Etymology
Rescue party joins rescue and party, where rescue means 'to save' and party once meant a small group sent out on a task. So a rescue party is the small team sent out 'to save' people in danger, which is why it means 'a group organized to help someone in trouble'.