ricerca e soccorso
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Calque of English search and rescue.
Noun
[edit]ricerca e soccorso f (plural ricerche e soccorsi)
- search and rescue
- 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 26, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
- Le squadre di ricerca e soccorso sono sul luogo dell'incidente e io sono in contatto con il Pentagono.
- We've got search-and-rescue teams near the site of the crash, and I'm in direct contact with the Pentagon...
- (literally, “The search-and-rescue teams are on the site of the incident, and I am in contact with the Pentagon.”)