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multialarm

multialarm adjective: requiring the work of several firetrucks to contain or extinguish.

Adjective

multialarm (not comparable)

  1. (US) Requiring the work of several firetrucks to contain or extinguish.
    • Fires which have heretofore been one‐alarm skirmishes are now multialarm small wars.1977 February 14, Joseph E. Galvin, “Under Fire”, in The New York Times
    • Two multialarm fires burned out of control for several hours in New York City last night, one racing through seven frame dwellings and leaving more than 100 people homeless in the Morrisania section of the Bronx and another, reportedly set by arsinists^([sic]), destroying a series of stores and...1977 July 25, “Fires Burn in Bronx and Brooklyn”, in The New York Times

Forms of multialarm

alternative formmulti-alarm

Origin of multialarm

From multi- + alarm.

Questions about multialarm

What does multialarm mean?
Multialarm means requiring the work of several firetrucks to contain or extinguish.
What part of speech is multialarm?
Multialarm is an adjective.

Words near multialarm in the dictionary

  1. multiage
  2. multiagency
  3. multiagent
  4. multiagents
  5. multiairport
  6. multialarm
  7. multialbum
  8. multialgebra
  9. multialgebras
  10. multialgorithm
  11. multialgorithmic

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