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dropzone

dropzone noun: the location at which troops or supplies are dropped, usually by parachute.

Noun

dropzone (plural dropzones)

  1. The location at which troops or supplies are dropped, usually by parachute.
    • […] he and his men were dropped inaccurately and came down over a mile from their appointed dropzone.1979, Michael Hickey, Out of the Sky: A History of Airborne Warfare
    • Hand-to-hand fighting ensued as Americans and Japanese struggled for possession of the AAF dropzones that supplied the Southern Force with rations […]1998, Stephen R Taaffe, MacArthur's Jungle War: The 1944 New Guinea Campaign

Forms of dropzone

pluraldropzones
alternative formdrop zone

Origin of dropzone

From drop + zone.

Questions about dropzone

What does dropzone mean?
Dropzone means the location at which troops or supplies are dropped, usually by parachute.
What part of speech is dropzone?
Dropzone is a noun.
What is the plural of dropzone?
The plural of dropzone is dropzones.

Words near dropzone in the dictionary

  1. dropwisely
  2. dropworm
  3. dropworms
  4. dropwort
  5. dropworts
  6. dropzone
  7. dropzones
  8. Dror
  9. DROs
  10. droschke
  11. droschkes

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