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firebases

firebases is the plural of firebase.

Meaning of firebase

Noun

firebase (plural firebases)

  1. An encampment designed to provide indirect artillery support to infantry troops operating beyond the normal range of fire support from their own base camps; a fire support base.
    • They had each set up a one-tank firebase, and become the center of a small community. Behind the sandbagged fort that each crew had built, a cluster of refugee huts and sprung up, and now, as the company drove by, these were the scenes of farewells.1986, Ralph Zumbro, “Road to Pleiku”, in Tank Sergeant, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 102
    Synonyms:
    fire support base, FB, FSB

Questions about firebases

What is firebases the plural of?
Firebases is the plural of firebase.

Words near firebases in the dictionary

  1. firebar
  2. firebare
  3. firebares
  4. firebars
  5. firebase
  6. firebases
  7. firebath
  8. firebathe
  9. firebathed
  10. firebathes
  11. firebathing

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