fire drill

noun

: a practice drill in extinguishing fires or in the conduct and manner of exit in case of fire

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Those training exercises, which include live-fire drills, were scheduled to run through Thursday. Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2025 The ship was monitoring the live-fire drills being carried out by PLA's Eastern Theater Command. Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025 That means segmenting networks, conducting regular threat hunting, hardening endpoints and practicing incident response as rigorously as fire drills. Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 27 July 2025 However, Richard Aguiar, the deputy chief of the city's Emergency Management Agency, told USA TODAY the facility should do fire drills every three months, per protocol. N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 15 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for fire drill

Word History

First Known Use

1861, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of fire drill was in 1861

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“Fire drill.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fire%20drill. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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fire drill

noun
: a practice drill in putting out fires or in getting out of a building in case of fire

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