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airfield

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airfield
a landing and taking-off area for aircraft, usually with permanent buildings

airfield [′er‚fēld]
(civil engineering)
The area of an airport for the takeoff and landing of airplanes.


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City officials will begin another round of hearings next week on plans to build a new $2 billion north airfield at LAX -- the most expensive and contentious of the airport's modernization projects.
Of course, if the insurgents are actually within range of the airfield, then the airfield must be seized by helicopter assault-a complex and dangerous operation in itself.
To quote the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, May 2005: When Moss Trawnley, age 17, loses his job at an airfield in Texas in the depths of the Depression, he heads out to Montana to try to find his father and make sure he gets money to their family back in Louisiana.
 
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