free-fire zone
noun
an area in which military units have prior clearance to fire at will on any person or object encountered.
free-fire zones
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pluralof free-fire zone.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Human rights standards protect all sorts of speech, but they do not require free-fire zones of disinformation, hatred, and harassment.
From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2019
To avoid hitting innocent civilians, most missions are carried out in "free-fire zones" designated by the Vietnamese province chief and kept under strict dusk-to-dawn curfew.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gone are the bleak tenements in the Catholic Bogside and Protestant Fountain areas, which were free-fire zones in the '70s and '80s.
From Time Magazine Archive
