n. A place where airplanes can take off and land but unlike an airport must not necessarily have terminals or paved runways.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. a place where planes take off and land; an airport; -- usually used of airports other than those with regularly sheduled commercial flights, such as those at military bases or small fields for private aircraft.
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n. a place where planes take off and land
Word Usage
""What they really want to do is get the main airfield up to full capacity," said retired general Jack Keane, the former Army vice chief of staff."