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Noun: combat zone
  1. A city district known for its vice and high crime rate
    - tenderloin [N. Amer]
     
  2. (military) a military area where combat forces operate
    - combat area

Derived forms: combat zones

Type of: city district, zone

Part of: field, field of operations, theater [US], theater of operations [US], theatre, theatre of operations

Encyclopedia: Combat zone