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field of operations

n. a region in which active military operations are in progress; "the army was in the field awaiting action"; "he served in the Vietnam theater for three years" [syn: field, theater, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations]

Usage examples of "field of operations".

In the near future, they'll receive a special kind of assistance in order to expand their field of operations and sphere of influence and gain new recruits.

Sempronius, to whom that field of operations had fallen, imagined that as he was leading the troops of a victorious people against those whom they had vanquished, the fortune of war could never change.

Its field of operations was wide enough so that its regularly spaced schedule of kills didnt actually disrupt traffic there or scare it away.

Its field of operations was wide enough so that its regularly spaced schedule of kills didn't actually disrupt traffic there or scare it away.

With so clear a field of operations, the bandits should have been able to take as much as they pleased, yet their known hauls were so small that she suspected they'd been pilfering for quite a while before anyone even noticed.