Wiktionary
vb. (context idiomatic English) to go out onto the playing field
WordNet
v. go on a campaign; go off to war [syn: campaign]
go on the playing field, of a football team
Usage examples of "take the field".
As the Tenth marched toward the Senones' stronghold, Julius laughed aloud with the excitement of such a prospect, even as his mind filled with the thousand details of supply and administration that his men required to take the field.
Just as the gasoline engine with its high horsepower-to-weight ratio had been necessary before the first tanks could take the field, so the fusion unit's almost limitless output was required to move the mass which made the new supertanks viable.
Unable to take the field effectively thereafter, he'd become his brother's chief of staff, and he flipped through a pad of notes.
Before I can take the field, I must receive an adequate supply of light and heavy armed troops.
Ailil Riatin came, a slim dignified woman with big dark eyes, not young but quite pretty, protesting that she had a Lance-captain to lead her armsmen and no desire to take the field in person.
First, a summary: The First Royal Infantry is fully qualified to take the field, and I shall shortly recommend that we do so.
But if we're going to take the field with you, we've got to come up with a way to hit them hard and do it fast, and at least there are three bullets in our gun.
Having said that, if we did take the field against them, we would probably begin by recapturing D'Sley to use as a base of supply.
Having said that, if we did take the field against them, we would probably begin by recapturing D’.
The duchesse de Grammont, flattering herself that she might now take the field against me with advantage, arrived in Paris one fine morning from Chanteloup.
Only a fraction of the troops available from the Desert and Princemarch would take the field for maneuvers, but Pol desperately wanted just a glimpse of what was going on.
When it was needful to take the field, young Danvan Hastur or Kieran Ridenow could command in his place.
Should he fall in the siege I will myself take the field to maintain it, and when we have both perished, the duchess, my wife, shall come from Spain to do the same.
Their lords could no longer summon them to take the field, had no longer power almost of life and death over them, but they were still their lords, and regarded with the highest respect and reverence.
We vie with one another in the splendor of our accoutrements when trapped for the observance of the lighter duties of life, though when we take the field our leather is the plainest I ever have seen worn by fighting men of Barsoom.