FIELD OF OPERATIONS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does field of operations mean? 

• FIELD OF OPERATIONS (noun)
  The noun FIELD OF OPERATIONS has 1 sense:

1. a region in which active military operations are in progress

  Familiarity information: FIELD OF OPERATIONS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIELD OF OPERATIONS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A region in which active military operations are in progress

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

field; field of operations; theater; theater of operations; theatre; theatre of operations

Context example:

he served in the Vietnam theater for three years

Hypernyms ("field of operations" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "field of operations"):

combat area; combat zone (a military area where combat forces operate)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Holonyms ("field of operations" is a part of...):

theater of war; theatre of war (the entire land, sea, and air area that may become or is directly involved in war operations)

 Context examples 

“This is a very obvious way of limiting our field of operations,” said Holmes.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)