auxiliary airfield

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   an airfield that functions in a subsidiary capacity

   Broaderairfield

Questions about auxiliary airfield

What does auxiliary airfield mean?

auxiliary airfield means "an airfield that functions in a subsidiary capacity".

Is auxiliary airfield a common word?

auxiliary airfield is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.