take the field

1. 1.

   go on a campaign; go off to war

   Synonymscampaign

   Narrowercrusade
2. 2.

   go on the playing field, of a football team

   Broaderenter

Questions about take the field

What does take the field mean?

take the field means "go on a campaign; go off to war". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for take the field?

Close synonyms include campaign. 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 take the field a common word?

take the field 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.