Meaning

2 senses
  1. One who responds.

    someone who responds

  2. A person who responds to an emergency situation or other summons.

    911 responders arrived at the scene within five minutes after the call.

Examples

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

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

  3. After the accident, the evacuated area was quickly surrounded by emergency responders.

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

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

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