ricerca e soccorso

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Italian

Etymology

Calque of English search and rescue.

Noun

ricerca e soccorso f (plural ricerche e soccorsi)

  1. search and rescue
    • 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 26, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa, 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.”)