battlefront

noun

bat·​tle·​front ˈba-tᵊl-ˌfrənt How to pronounce battlefront (audio)
1
: the military sector in which actual combat takes place
2
: a place or context within which a struggle is fought
… he had already served more than a decade as an attorney on the battlefronts of the civil rights movement.Vincent Harding

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But despite the efforts of Republicans to turn DEI into a battlefront for the culture wars, DEI practices are nothing new. Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 18 Feb. 2025 Maybe most significantly, as civil war engulfed Syria, the Assad regime withdrew its forces from Kurdish-majority areas in the north to focus on the war’s primary battlefronts, which resulted in de facto autonomy. Sefa Secen & Serhun Al / Made By History, TIME, 7 Feb. 2025 Kyiv has repeatedly warned that freezing the battlefront would allow Moscow to fortify its positions, entrench in occupied territory and rearm to come back for more. Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2025 In Ukraine, as in Korea seven decades ago, a static battlefront and intractable political differences call for a cease-fire that would pause the violence while putting off thorny political issues for another day. Carter Malkasian, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023 See All Example Sentences for battlefront

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First Known Use

1813, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of battlefront was in 1813

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“Battlefront.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/battlefront. Accessed 20 Mar. 2025.

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