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say it: DEE-em-zee
dmz is a noun meaning "a zone from which military forces or operations or installations are prohibited". It is pronounced /ˈdiˌɛmˌzi/ — DEE-em-zee. It carries one recorded sense.
a zone from which military forces or operations or installations are prohibited
“tensions exist on both sides of the demilitarized zone separating North Korea and South Korea”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dmz come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.