Other forms: rescuers
A rescuer is a person who goes in and brings somebody out. The rescuers arrived, thank the rescuer, a volunteer rescuer.
The first rule of every rescue service is that the rescuer must not become the second casualty, which is why training spends so much time on when not to go in. Most mountain and cave rescue in Britain is done by unpaid volunteers.
1nounrescuerA person who goes in and brings somebody out.
“The rescuers dug through the snow for hours to reach the trapped climbers.”
rescuer is a person.
Rescue plus -er, from Old French rescourre, to drive back or set free.
Old French
rescoure
Middle English
rescouen
English
rescue
English, today
rescuer
Built from
From rescue + -er. rescue comes from Middle English rescouen, from Old French rescoure, rescurre, rescorre; from Latin - prefix re- (“re-”) + excutiō (“to shake or drive out”), from ex (“out”) + quatiō (“to shake”). Displaced native Old English nerian.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA