FIRE COMPANY Synonyms

• an institution created to conduct business

• small military unit; usually two or three platoons

• the state of being with someone

• organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical)

• a social or business visitor

• a social gathering of guests or companions

• a band of people associated temporarily in some activity

• crew of a ship including the officers; the whole force or personnel of a ship

• a unit of firefighters including their equipment

• be a companion to somebody

• the men and women who man a vehicle (ship, aircraft, etc.)

• an organized group of workmen

• an informal body of friends

• the team of men or women manning a racing shell

• serve as a crew member on

• a specialized division of a large organization

• the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France)

• a specialized sphere of knowledge

• a powerful effect or influence

• (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity

• physical energy or intensity

• group of people willing to obey orders

• a unit that is part of some military service

• an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)

• one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority

• a group of people having the power of effective action

• (of a law) having legal validity

• a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base

• to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means

• urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate

• move with force

• impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably

• squeeze like a wedge into a tight space

• force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically

• do forcibly; exert force

• take by force

• a smallest army unit

• a cooperative unit (especially in sports)

• a small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crime

• a cooperative unit (especially in sports)

• two or more draft animals that work together to pull something

• form a team

• any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange

• an individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole

• an organization regarded as part of a larger social group

• a single undivided whole

• a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else

• an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity

• a private or temporary organization of individuals equipped to fight fires

• British name for a fire department