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🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

premier intervenant

Pronunciation / Transliteration: pʁə.mje ɛ̃.tɛʁ.və.nɑ̃

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
First Responder/ˈfɜːrst rɪˈspɒn.dər/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2450 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Les premiers intervenants ont évacué le bâtiment en toute sécurité."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A person trained to deal with an emergency as soon as it arrives, such as a police officer, firefighter, or paramedic.

    "First-responders arrived at the accident scene within minutes of the call."
  2. 2

    Any person designated to take immediate action during a crisis or disaster.

    "Local hospital staff acted as first-responders during the sudden influx of patients."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term is a modern compound combining the English adjective 'first' (from Old English 'fyrest') and the agent noun 'responder' (derived from the Latin 'respondere', meaning to answer or reply). It emerged in late 20th-century emergency services terminology to officially designate professionals who are first to arrive at the scene of an incident.

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