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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
airfield
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
military
▪ We saw the big white bird bank over the town, and then land at the new military airfield.
▪ She would leave for the Potsdam military airfield on Saturday morning.
■ VERB
take
▪ But it was unlucky 13 when he took off from an airfield in Yorkshire in a Halifax bomber.
▪ Among the more unusual jobs Amelia took on at the airfield was decorating the public rooms.
▪ Its number was 4224 painted white underneath, and it was taken to Marshall's airfield at Cambridge to be assembled.
▪ Male speaker I took off from an airfield near Stroud and flew to Basingstoke.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A few days later a 69 Squadron Maryland approached the airfield, looking for all the world like a Ju88.
▪ But it was unlucky 13 when he took off from an airfield in Yorkshire in a Halifax bomber.
▪ During 9 March numerous single aircraft appeared overhead to strafe Takali airfield.
▪ Graf von Kageneck is helped into his parachute harness by his ground crew on a Sicilian airfield in May 1941.
▪ That burst finally convinced somebody in airfield defence.
▪ The result in the vote against the development and for the retention of the airfield was unanimous.
▪ Trying to exit the airfield after the show ended resulted in large queues of vehicles all trying to get out of one gate.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
airfield

airfield \air"field`\ ([^a]r"f[=e]ld`), n. 1. 1 a place where planes take off and land; an airport; -- usually used of airports other than those with regularly sheduled commercial flights, such as those at military bases or small fields for private aircraft.

Syn: landing field, flying field, field

Wiktionary
airfield

n. (label en aviation) A place where airplanes can take off and land but which, unlike an airport, does not necessarily have terminals or paved runways.

WordNet
airfield

n. a place where planes take off and land [syn: landing field, flying field, field]

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Usage examples of "airfield".

Should the weather deteriorate sufficiently to endanger our return flight we have been ordered to make a landing on the airfield near the town of Kalinin.

The Soviets are attacking the airfield with tanks and infantry, and are less than a mile away.

The front line has been pushed forward again a few miles to the East of our airfield, and we return to our base at Staritza where we have long been expected back.

Transport aircraft land daily on our airfield bringing fur clothing, skis, sledges and other things.

Our airfield is placed in a very similar situation to that a few weeks ago when we were at Kalinin.

He brings us the news that we are to move further east to an, airfield near Terek.

Our airfield is now frequently the target of Soviet airforce attacks in low and high level raids.

I immediately take off with the squadron and close to the airfield I see horses, their dismounted riders beside them, all Ivans.

Unless we can wipe them all out before dusk our airfield will be threatened by nightfall.

After the attack we climb and fly back to the airfield by the shortest route, well satisfied with the good job we have done and with the success of our defensive measures.

Alone it can shoot our whole airfield with everything on it to blazes.

On the 24th December we are, in any case, to retire to another airfield in the southeast.

In that case we shall have to defend the airfield and all our aircraft.

Christmas Eve the Soviets have overrun the neighbouring airfield at Tazinskaja, 30 miles west, where a transport squadron of our command is stationed.

For sorties further north my squadron uses the airfield at Woroschilowgrad.