war zone

We could not find the full phrase you were looking for.
The entry for 'war' is displayed below.

Also see: zone

Multiple Entries:
  war    War.  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
war/wɔː(r)/

▶noun a state of armed conflict between different countries or different groups within a country.

■ a state of competition, conflict, or hostility: a price war.

■ a sustained campaign against something undesirable: a war on drugs.

▶verb (wars, warring, warred) engage in a war or conflict.

– phrases
be in the wars informal be injured.
war clouds a threatening situation of instability in international relations.

– origin OE werre, from an Anglo-Norman Fr. var. of OFr. guerre, from a Gmc base shared by worse.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
War.

▶abbreviation Warwickshire.