field of operations

Questions about field of operations

What does field of operations mean?

field of operations means "a region in which active military operations are in progress".

What is another word for field of operations?

Close synonyms include field, theater, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations. 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 field of operations a common word?

field of operations 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.