"dropzone" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From drop + zone.",
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          "ref": "1979, Michael Hickey, Out of the Sky: A History of Airborne Warfare:",
          "text": "[…] he and his men were dropped inaccurately and came down over a mile from their appointed dropzone.",
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          "ref": "1998, Stephen R Taaffe, MacArthur's Jungle War: The 1944 New Guinea Campaign:",
          "text": "Hand-to-hand fighting ensued as Americans and Japanese struggled for possession of the AAF dropzones that supplied the Southern Force with rations […]",
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          "ref": "2003, Kenneth J Conboy, Kopassus: Inside Indonesia's Special Forces:",
          "text": "Dropzones east of the town were quickly ruled out because of the rugged high ground in between, ruining the element of surprise […]",
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        "The location at which troops or supplies are dropped, usually by parachute."
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          "drop",
          "drop"
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          "parachute",
          "parachute"
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