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exchange of fire en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of shooting at each other by antagonists armed with guns.
   • A man's response to the threat of gunplay bore far more meaning than the exchange of fire itself. 2010, Roger W. Shuy, The Language of Defamation Cases, page 19:
   • The duellists met at ten paces, and at the first exchange of fire Mr C. was slightly wounded. 2010, Stephen Banks, A Polite Exchange of Bullets, page 253:
   • It was the RCN's first exchange of fire with the enemy during the Second World War. 2002, William Alexander Binny Douglas, Roger Flynn Sarty, No Higher Purpose, page 98:

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exchange fire

Translations (8)

ru перепа́лка (Translations) · cmn 交戰 /交战 (Translations) · fi laukaustenvaihto (Translations) · fr échange de tirs (Translations) · cmn 交火 (Translations) · pl wymiana ognia (Translations) · de Schusswechsel (Translations) · ru перестре́лка (Translations)