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Firebase

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A military base or site from which heavy fire is directed against the enemy.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An encampment designed to provide indirect-fire artillery support to infantry operating beyond the normal range of fire support from their own base camps

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. an artillery base to support advancing troops

Word Usage

"In brief terms the action involved a rifle company action in which the infantry were detailed off to intercept a North Vietnamese Army (NVA) battalion that was approaching a firebase from the North which then got into difficulties because of the sudden appearance of a second NVA unit in its rear."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

base base of operations

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

fire support base FSB FB

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