field of fire

1. 1.

   the area that a weapon or group of weapons can cover effectively with gun fire from a given position

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Questions about field of fire

What does field of fire mean?

field of fire means "the area that a weapon or group of weapons can cover effectively with gun fire from a given position".

Is field of fire a common word?

field of fire 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.