Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An area of fields and runways where aircraft take off and land.
- noun An airport or airbase.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a place where planes take off and land; an airport; -- usually used of airports other than those with regularly sheduled commercial flights, such as those at military bases or small fields for private aircraft.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A place where airplanes can take off and land but unlike an
airport must not necessarily haveterminals or pavedrunways .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a place where planes take off and land
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Examples
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"What they really want to do is get the main airfield up to full capacity," said retired general Jack Keane, the former Army vice chief of staff.
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Logan has Kidport play areas in Terminals A and C, rocking chairs, a public art program, pet relief areas outside each terminal and great (enclosed) views of the airfield from the top floors of the central garage in Terminals B or C. Nearby layover option
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Floyd Bennet airfield is 16km from Brooklyn Bridge by land and 25 km by water.
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This airfield is now accepting bulk shipments of weapons, ammunition, fuel, and fresh troops.
What would you do? 2007
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Anchored off Port au Prince, that gives the aid effort a helicopter airfield where refueling and maintenance operations can take place without interfering with ground operations at the main airfield.
Think Progress » Chavez Attacks U.S. Efforts In Haiti: ‘They Are Occupying Haiti Undercover’ 2010
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At the far end of the airfield was a cluster of prefabricated buildings.
The Athena Project Brad Thor 2010
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Where we were sitting in Jalalabad was, by chance, beside the Jalalabad airfield, which is one of the major takeoff zones for the drones.
Christopher Lydon: William Dalrymple: the Af-Pak Fiasco "on its last legs" (AUDIO) 2010
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Where we were sitting in Jalalabad was, by chance, beside the Jalalabad airfield, which is one of the major takeoff zones for the drones.
Christopher Lydon: William Dalrymple: the Af-Pak Fiasco "on its last legs" (AUDIO) 2010
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Its airfield, which is under construction, has been described as the "largest such project in the world in a combat setting."
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This happened in Kandahar airfield, which is in the southern part of Afghanistan.
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