TRANSIT ZONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does transit zone mean? 

• TRANSIT ZONE (noun)
  The noun TRANSIT ZONE has 1 sense:

1. a six million square mile area that includes the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico and the eastern Pacific Ocean; includes the principal routes used by drug smugglers

  Familiarity information: TRANSIT ZONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSIT ZONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A six million square mile area that includes the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico and the eastern Pacific Ocean; includes the principal routes used by drug smugglers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("transit zone" is a kind of...):

geographical zone; zone (any of the regions of the surface of the Earth loosely divided according to latitude or longitude)