Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation demilitarized zone

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  • initialism military demilitarized zone
  • initialism dorsal marginal zone

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  • noun a zone from which military forces or operations or installations are prohibited

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Examples

  • She speaks of the demise of their label DMZ - the boutique Sony imprint launched by the

    LA Weekly | Complete Issue 2010

  • The online world seemed almost as a DMZ from the regular business world, even as the internet ecosystem was built by, and populated by, millions of websites from those created by big companies and individual people.

    Art Brodsky: Our Open Internet Under Siege Art Brodsky 2010

  • The online world seemed almost as a DMZ from the regular business world, even as the internet ecosystem was built by, and populated by, millions of websites from those created by big companies and individual people.

    Art Brodsky: Our Open Internet Under Siege Art Brodsky 2010

  • The online world seemed almost as a DMZ from the regular business world, even as the internet ecosystem was built by, and populated by, millions of websites from those created by big companies and individual people.

    Art Brodsky: Our Open Internet Under Siege Art Brodsky 2010

  • The fence used in the Korean DMZ is pretty effective in keeping DPRK soldiers out.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Mayor Daley and other Mayors: Seek “redress against the gun industry” in the World Court  2010

  • The online world seemed almost as a DMZ from the regular business world, even as the internet ecosystem was built by, and populated by, millions of websites from those created by big companies and individual people.

    Art Brodsky: Our Open Internet Under Siege Art Brodsky 2010

  • DMZ is my favorite graphic novel since Transmetropolitan, a relentless adventure story, a sharp political allegory, and a damned good read.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • DMZ is Brian Wood's remarkable war comics about a civil war in America in which both sides have turned New York into a heavily shelled no-man's-land where the fighting never stops, and the story is told from the point of view of Matty Roth, an intern journalist who is stranded in Manhattan and becomes the world's most celebrated reporter of the war.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • DMZ is unrelentingly angry and mean, smart and shocking.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • DMZ is a special kind of angry comic, the kind of angry war comic that tells the story of the other side in the war.

    Boing Boing 2007

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