Definition of Combat zone

1. Noun. A city district known for its vice and high crime rate.

Exact synonyms: Tenderloin
Generic synonyms: City District

2. Noun. A military area where combat forces operate.
Exact synonyms: Combat Area
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Generic synonyms: Zone
Group relationships: Field, Field Of Operations, Theater, Theater Of Operations, Theatre, Theatre Of Operations
Specialized synonyms: War Zone, Bridgehead, Foothold

Lexicographical Neighbors of Combat Zone

combat boot
combat casualty
combat ceiling
combat disorders
combat exhaustion
combat fatigue
combat fatigues
combat injury
combat intelligence
combat mission
combat neurosis
combat pay
combat pilot
combat ship
combat sport
combat zone (current term)
combatable
combatant
combatants
combated
combater
combaters
combating
combative
combatively
combativeness
combativenesses
combats
combatted
combatting

Literary usage of Combat zone

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New York Times Current History (1919)
"The second zone is called the great combat zone, ... but to attract the enemy into the great combat zone after having weakened him as much as possible in ..."

2. Airlift Doctrine by Charles Edward Miller (1988)
"Airlift of Army supplies, equipment, personnel and units from exterior points to points within the combat zone. b. Airlift for the evacuation of personnel ..."

3. The Military Dictionary (1987)
"See also combat area; communications zone. combat zone—(NATO) 1. ... The rear combat zone, usually comprising the territory between the corps rear boundary ..."

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