-fired

suffix

Definition

› using a particular type of fuel: gas-fired/oil-fired/coal-fired The company is to take electricity from a new coal-fired power plant being built on one of its sites.

(Definition of -fired suffix from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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fire sale noun
fire sb up
fire sth off
fire sth up
fire verb
-fired suffix
firefighting noun
firepower noun
fireproof adjective
firetrap noun
firewall noun

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gas-fired adjective
fire verb
fire, at sack verb
fire sb up
fire sth up
fire away

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fire sb up
fire sth up
fire away
fire back
fire sth off

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