dropping zone

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   an agreed area where military supplies are dropped to ground troops

   Synonymsdrop zone

   Broaderzone

   military

Questions about dropping zone

What does dropping zone mean?

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

What is another word for dropping zone?

Close synonyms include drop 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 dropping zone a common word?

dropping zone 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.