as in airport
a place from which aircraft operate that usually has paved runways and a terminal
the passenger jet made an emergency landing at an abandoned airfield
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Recent Examples of airfield
Work will continue overnight to keep the airfield clear.
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Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 4 Jan. 2025
The airfield is used by Russia's military station its Tu-95MS and Tu-160 jets, which launch cruise missile strikes against Ukraine and are nuclear-capable.
—Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
Fritz circled the airfield, in an attempt to get the birds to fall in behind.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
Instead, it's more commonly used as a taxiway to get around the congested airfield.
—Olivia Rinaldi, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2025
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Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 4 Jan. 2025
The airfield is used by Russia's military station its Tu-95MS and Tu-160 jets, which launch cruise missile strikes against Ukraine and are nuclear-capable.
—Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
Fritz circled the airfield, in an attempt to get the birds to fall in behind.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
Instead, it's more commonly used as a taxiway to get around the congested airfield.
—Olivia Rinaldi, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airfield
Noun
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The first option calls for the Silver Line to be built as light rail from the airport to Bojangles Coliseum in east Charlotte, with the option to extend it in both directions in the future.—
Mary Ramsey,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Mar. 2025
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Some airports may also experience disruptions and delays, such as during the 2019 shutdown when air traffic controllers working without pay threatened to walk off the job—a move that helped end the shutdown.—
Nik Popli,
TIME,
6 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The aim is to commercialize both piloted and autonomous civilian aircraft and the $1.4 billion will be spent creating a city-wide infrastructure for flying vehicles, with over 100 take-off and landing points in Guangzhou, a large general aviation aerodrome and a fleet of airborne taxis.—
Mike Hanlon,
New Atlas,
13 Aug. 2024
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And a huge concrete area that looked like an aerodrome was awaiting rebuilding as a new suburb.—
Charlie Hobbs,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 May 2024
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Last week, the Trump administration delivered 177 Venezuelan men who had been designated for deportation from Guantánamo to the Venezuelan government on an airstrip in Honduras.—
Hamed Aleaziz,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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In preparation for the arrival of more migrants, several hundred U.S. military service members have been deployed to Guantánamo and more than a hundred green Army tents have been erected in fields near an airstrip there.—
Sacha Pfeiffer,
NPR,
12 Feb. 2025
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“Airfield.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airfield. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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