open field

American  

noun

Football.

1. any area of the playing field away from the heavily trafficked line of scrimmage, in which the defense is widely scattered.

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open-field British  

adjective

1. (prenominal) medieval history of or denoting the system in which an arable area was divided into unenclosed strips, esp cultivated by different tenants

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Example Sentences

It turns out that D.C. wanted to spend $70,000 per location to connect a field house on Catholic University’s campus, a construction trailer a few feet from a pole with visible fiber, a gated Pepco electric utility building, a shed along Amtrak train tracks in Northeast D.C., a nonexistent building along the same Amtrak train tracks, and an open field off the George Washington Parkway.

From The Wall Street Journal

With Latinos comprising a plurality of California’s population, the absence of a leading candidate of color reflects broader institutional shortcomings rather than problems created by an open field.

From Los Angeles Times

Like the polar bear, the musk ox had come into the Very, Very Far North from somewhere else, and he had chosen the large open field as his home.

From Literature

Mystery solved, Duane now had to walk all the way to Handsome’s residence, which was an open field due north, in order to tell Handsome that he would return in three days’ time to attend the afternoon tea.

From Literature

Dane was preparing to publish his memoir, “Book of Days: A Memoir in Moments,” later this year with Maria Shriver’s publishing imprint, the Open Field.

From Los Angeles Times