Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The line or sector in which armed forces engage in combat.
- noun The area where opponents meet or clash.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the line along which opposing armies face each other.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The region or line along which opposing
armies engage incombat . - noun The area in which opponents or opposing ideas meet.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the line along which opposing armies face each other
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Examples
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"My oath and pledge," he wrote Sheik Nasrallah in a letter reprinted in a Palestinian newspaper, "is that my place will be at the battlefront, which is soaked in the sweat of your giving, and the blood of the most beloved among men, and that I shall continue down the path, until complete victory."
Descent From Entebbe 2008
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What if I told you this conversation is not about a battlefront but a boardroom?
Rev. Barbara Kaufmann: Speaking of Violence: Words In The Wake of Tucson's Tragedy Rev. Barbara Kaufmann 2011
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The services will focus on training troops before they deploy, but some training may take place at the battlefront, officials said.
Pentagon: Training on end of 'don't ask, don't tell' to start in February Ed O'Keefe 2011
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The services will focus on training troops before they deploy, but some training may take place at the battlefront, officials said.
Pentagon: Training on end of 'don't ask, don't tell' to start in February Ed O'Keefe 2011
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He asked Hearst to arrange to have him transferred to the Russian side of the battlefront.
JACK LONDON'S WAR 2010
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Yet none within this battlefront encampment laughed; no jaunty music could be heard.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011
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And by that standard it was a failure, giving the jihadist movement around the world a new battlefront and a new lease on life.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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What if I told you this conversation is not about a battlefront but a boardroom?
Rev. Barbara Kaufmann: Speaking of Violence: Words In The Wake of Tucson's Tragedy Rev. Barbara Kaufmann 2011
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For decades, these berserkers had defended this strategic pass against an immortal menace, protecting the villages in the valley below; she began to see that anything keeping these men here on the battlefront—and out of civilization—was a boon.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011
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And by that standard it was a failure, giving the jihadist movement around the world a new battlefront and a new lease on life.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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