Combat Zone

Definition: Combat Zone

1. A city district known for its vice and high crime rate.

2. A military area where combat forces operate.

Specialty Definition: Combat Zone

Domain	Definition
Military	1. That area required by combat forces for the conduct of operations. 2. The territory forward of the army group rear boundary. It is divided into: a. The forward combat zone, comprising the territory forward of the corps rear boundary. b. The rear combat zone, usually comprising the territory between the corps rear boundary and the army group rear boundary. See also communications zone. (references)
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Modern Usage: Combat Zone

Commercial Usage: Combat Zone

Domain	Title
Books	Combat Zone (reference) Combat Zone (MacK Bolan the Executioner, No 202) (reference) Easter Sunday in Combat Zone and Other Stories (reference) If I Die in a Combat Zone : Box Me Up and Ship Me Home (reference) In a Combat Zone (Flashback) (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: Combat Zone

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Photographed in 1898. This Boston ferryboat was converted to a gunboat during the Spanish-American war. Damaged by a severe storm off the U.S. east coast in July 1898, she saw no service in the combat zone. Note 5"/40 gun on her low forecastle deck. Credit: NAVY.		At Mayport, Florida, in August 1965, just prior to departing for Vietnam with elements of the Army's First Cavalry Division on board. She carried 1200 personnel, 205 helicopters and 6 OV-1 airplanes to the combat zone. Aircraft on her flight deck include 6 OV-1 (dark colored-forward); 4 CH-54 (white-just forward of island); 56 CH-47 (dark colored-amidships and aft) and 36 UH-1 (white-amidships and forward). The remaining 109 helicopters are presumably stowed on Boxer's hangar deck. Credit: NAVY.
	Flies a long "Homeward Bound" pennant as she departs the Western Pacific for overhaul in San Francisco, California, 13 April 1945. She had been operating in the combat zone since January 1944. View looks aft from the ship's island, with her SK-1 radar antennna at left and other shipping in the distance. Aircraft on Cabot's deck include (from right front): OS2U, SOC, TBM, SB2C, F4U and F6F types. Credit: NAVY.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Combat Zone

Modern Translation: Combat Zone

Language		Translations for "combat zone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		kampzone. (various references)

French		zone de combat. (various references)

German		Kampfzone. (various references)

Hungarian		harci övezet (zone of action). (various references)

Pig Latin		ombatcay onezay

Serbo-Croatian		zona ratnih operacija. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Combat Zone

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-m-n-o-o-t-z"
	-2 letters: ectozoan, metazoon.
	-3 letters: boatmen, cabezon, ectozoa, entozoa, matzoon, ozonate.
	-4 letters: batmen, beacon, bemoan, bezant, cabmen, comate, combat, coombe, entomb, octane, omenta, tombac, zonate.
	-5 letters: aboon, ament, atone, azote, bacon, banco, baton, bazoo, beano, beton, bonze, booze, cameo, canoe, canto, cento, comae, combe, combo, comet, comte, conte, conto, coomb, cotan, cozen, enact, macon, matzo, meant.
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Domain	Usage
Lyrics	I've been stranded in the combat zone (You May Be Right; performing artist: Billy Joel)
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Expression	Frequency per Day
top gun combat zone	51
combat zone	38
if i die in a combat zone	12
boston combat zone	7
bostons combat zone	2
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