drop zone

1. 1.

   an agreed area where military supplies are dropped to ground troops

   Synonymsdropping zone

   Broaderzone

   military

Questions about drop zone

What does drop zone mean?

drop zone means "an agreed area where military supplies are dropped to ground troops".

What is another word for drop zone?

Close synonyms include dropping zone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drop zone a common word?

drop zone is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.