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Field of operations

noun

A region in which active military operations are in progress. Synonyms: field, theater, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations. "He served in the Vietnam theater for three years"

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"Field of operations" Quotes from Famous Books

... but made the bonds extremely tenuous, so that they might be severed at any moment without involving profound changes in either country, and by this arrangement, which introduced the provisional into the definitive, a broad field of operations was allotted to political agitation and revolt was ...

— The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference • Emile Joseph Dillon

... has already studied the description of this theatre of the war presented elsewhere in this work. Aside from that, the movements that follow should only be traced with the aid of a map. Written words are inadequate to give a concrete picture of the field of operations. ...

— The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various

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