Meaning

2 senses
  1. (Australia, Canada, US)A member of an emergency service who is first on the scene, or among those first on the scene, at an emergency.

    Ersthelfer, Ersthelferin

  2. (Australia, Canada, US)A member of an emergency service trained to provide emergency medical care.

Examples

7 sentences
  1. The paramedic first responders have been deployed.

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  2. Yanni, an experienced first-responder, has saved more than four hundred lives.

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  3. Supermarket staffers are now in the category of heroic workers, like first responders.

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  4. Medical first responders say the woman was unconscious on the ground when they arrived.

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  5. He's a first responder.

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Translations

2 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a member of an emergency service who is first on the scene at an emergency — see also first-aider:

Forms

plural: first responders
Singularfirst responder
Pluralfirst responders

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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