line of contact
English
Noun
line of contact (plural lines of contact)
- The demarcation between two or more given armies, whether they are allied or belligerent.
- 2021 December 10, Luke Harding, “‘Nobody wants to be Putin’s slave’: on the Ukraine frontline as tensions rise”, in The Guardian:
- Both sides face off along a fixed 250-mile “border”, or line of contact, which snakes across Ukraine’s Donbas region.
Further reading
- line of contact on Wikipedia.Wikipedia