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See also: fire break
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]firebreak (plural firebreaks)
- An area cleared of all flammable material to prevent a fire from spreading across it.
- The firefighters used a bulldozer to clear a firebreak in the forest to try to contain the forest fire.
- (figurative) Any separating barrier.
- 1984, Dietrich Schroeer, Science, Technology and the Nuclear Arms Race, page 293:
- That policy could consist of a statement that the declaring nation would not be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would strengthen the firebreak between the use of conventional and nuclear weapons.
- 2012, Daniel Levine, Recovering International Relations: The Promise of Sustainable Critique, page 112:
- First, it serves to demonstrate that the practice of sustainable critique […] need not be impossibly philosophically rarefied […] Second, it serves as a firebreak against the unrelieved negativity that, it is sometimes charged, follows from Adorno's practices of reflexivity.
Synonyms
[edit]- firetrail (Australia)
Translations
[edit]area cleared of flammable material to prevent a fire from spreading
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