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Meaning of multialarm | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

Requiring the work of several firetrucks to contain or extinguish.

US, not-comparable

Examples

“Fires which have heretofore been one‐alarm skirmishes are now multialarm small wars.”
“Two multialarm fires burned out of control for several hours in New York City last night, one racing through seven frame dwellings and leaving more than 100 people homeless in the Morrisania section of the Bronx and another, reportedly set by arsinists^([sic]), destroying a series of stores and residences in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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