first responder
A member of an emergency service who is first on the scene, or among those first on…A member of an emergency service who is first on the scene, or among those first on the scene, at an emergency.
» The paramedic first responders have been deployed.
Meaning
2 senses(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
(Australia, Canada, US)A member of an emergency service trained to provide emergency medical care.
Examples
7 sentencesThe paramedic first responders have been deployed.
Yanni, an experienced first-responder, has saved more than four hundred lives.
Supermarket staffers are now in the category of heroic workers, like first responders.
Medical first responders say the woman was unconscious on the ground when they arrived.
He's a first responder.
Translations
2 languagesBy meaning 1
Forms
plural: first responders| Singular | first responder |
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