Definitions
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- adjective Designating an area in which
military personnel have authority toshoot on anyone without obtaining prior clearance.
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Examples
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Another word for this is blogging, or at least what blogging might be after it matures — meaning, after it transcends its current status as a free-fire zone and settles into a more comprehensive system of gathering and presenting information.
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Another word for this is blogging, or at least what blogging might be after it matures — meaning, after it transcends its current status as a free-fire zone and settles into a more comprehensive system of gathering and presenting information.
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Suddenly, "sovereignty" had next to no meaning if you weren't a superpower; the US was ready to take out after terrorists in up to 80 countries; and the planet, by definition, had become a global free-fire zone.
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Two of the battlegrounds highlighted in The Pacific, Peleliu and Iwo Jima, were free-fire zones, void of civilians, save perhaps for Korean slave laborers imported by the Japanese.
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After 19 months of mass market campaigning inside the most luxurious cocoon money could buy, Meg Whitman on Thursday suddenly found herself in the political free-fire zone.
Phil Trounstine: Character in the CA Gov Race: eMeg, Nicky & the Smoking Letter Phil Trounstine 2010
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From then on, the planet was – conceptually speaking – a free-fire zone, and even before robotic weaponry developed to its present level, it was already a drone-eat-drone world to the horizon.
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The goal became to blockbust the cities, scaring the white people into moving to the suburbs, and making the inner cities into free-fire zones for business, where they could build and pollute with no pesky good-government types looking over their shoulders.
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One more place that used to be safe and ordinary, suitable for children, is suddenly, for one random moment, a free-fire zone.
Robert Koehler: The Paradox of Disarmament Robert Koehler 2011
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Two of the battlegrounds highlighted in The Pacific, Peleliu and Iwo Jima, were free-fire zones, void of civilians, save perhaps for Korean slave laborers imported by the Japanese.
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After 19 months of mass market campaigning inside the most luxurious cocoon money could buy, Meg Whitman on Thursday suddenly found herself in the political free-fire zone.
Phil Trounstine: Character in the CA Gov Race: eMeg, Nicky and the Smoking Letter Phil Trounstine 2010
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