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TESTING GROUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does testing ground mean? 

TESTING GROUND (noun)
  The noun TESTING GROUND has 1 sense:

1. a region resembling a laboratory inasmuch as it offers opportunities for observation and practice and experimentationplay

  Familiarity information: TESTING GROUND used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TESTING GROUND (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A region resembling a laboratory inasmuch as it offers opportunities for observation and practice and experimentation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

laboratory; testing ground

Context example:

Pakistan is a laboratory for studying the use of American troops to combat terrorism

Hypernyms ("testing ground" is a kind of...):

region (a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth)


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