fire department

English Thesaurus

1. the department of local government responsible for preventing and extinguishing fires (noun.group)

hypernym	:	department of local government, local department,
definition	:	a permanent department created to perform the work of a local government (noun.group)

hyponym	:	fire brigade,
definition	:	British name for a fire department (noun.group)

member holonym	:	fire fighter, fire-eater, firefighter, fireman,
definition	:	a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires (noun.person)