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uk /ˈfaɪə.faɪt/ us /ˈfaɪr.faɪt/

› a fight, often unexpected, between opposing groups of soldiers in which they shoot at each other:

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uk /ˈfaɪə.faɪt/ us /ˈfaɪr.faɪt/

› UK US put out fires to spend time on problems that need to be dealt with quickly, instead of working in a calm, planned way:

Will the new manager be able to do anything other than firefight?

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(Definition of “firefight” from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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