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theater of war

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noun

  1. the entire area in which ground, sea, and air forces may become directly employed in war operations, including the theater of operations and the zone of interior.


Etymology

Origin of theater of war

First recorded in 1885–90


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The Human Rights Commission of the Rio state legislature will demand "explanations" of how the favela was turned into a "theater of war and barbarism," commission head Dani Monteiro told AFP on Tuesday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2025

In the bigger scope, this is a limited theater of war.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2023

In the Pacific theater of war, the showdown between the United States and Japan concluded with the dropping of the first nuclear bombs, first at Hiroshima and then at Nagasaki.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

He was the first American general to be killed in a theater of war since the Vietnam War.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 25, 2022

In less than twelve years they baptized with the name Aureliano and the last name of the mother all the sons that the colonel had implanted up and down his theater of war: seventeen.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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