firebreak

See also: fire break

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From fire +‎ break.

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.

Synonym: (Australia) firetrail
(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.

area cleared of flammable material to prevent a fire from spreading