battlefront

noun

bat·​tle·​front ˈba-tᵊl-ˌfrənt 

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

Examples of battlefront in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The main fighting force moved on to other battlefronts as soon as the town was recaptured on the evening of Nov. 30, Mr. al-Ageid said. —Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2024

For months Russia has advanced – slowly and at great cost, to be sure – along much of the war’s battlefront. —Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2024

With McKenna stepping aside, the contest was wide open and could have become another battlefront between pro-teachers union and pro-charter forces. —Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024

But another important battlefront in the war on woke has opened up against diversity or DEI training and similar initiatives in the workplace and educational institutions. —Thomas F. Powers, National Review, 1 Dec. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1813, in the meaning defined at sense 1