zone

noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ narrow, wide

▪ marginal, peripheral, transition, transitional, twilight

▪

a transition zone between tropical and arid vegetations

▪

the twilight zone between living and merely existing

▪ border, frontier

▪ neutral

▪ battle, combat, conflict, military, war

▪ buffer, demilitarized, exclusion, no-fly, no-go

▪

This area behind the station is a no-go zone for tourists.

▪ occupation, occupied

▪ free-fire (AmE, also figurative), kill, target

▪

The Internet has become a free-fire zone for conspiracy theories(= there are no restrictions).

▪

Our truck was trapped in the kill zone (= where it can be attacked).

▪ danger

▪ disaster

▪

The region has been declared an ecological disaster zone.

▪ safe, safety, security

▪

She stood some distance away from him to maintain a safety zone.

▪ drug-free, nuclear-free, smoke-free, traffic-free, etc.

▪

Most of the old town is a traffic-free zone.

▪ northern, southern, etc.

▪ central

▪ earthquake, fault, seismic

▪ climate, climatic

▪ temperate, tropical

▪

the temperate and tropical zones of South America

▪ coastal

▪ dead

▪

an oxygen-depleted dead zone at the bottom of the sea

▪ economic, enterprise, fishing, free-trade, industrial

▪

an industrial zone of factories, warehouses and shipyards

▪ autonomous

▪ pedestrian (BrE)

▪ school (AmE)

▪ time

▪

Vancouver is in the same time zone as Los Angeles.

▪ erogenous

▪ drop, landing

▪ relegation (BrE)

▪

The team finds itself in the relegation zone after a run of poor results.

▪ strike (in baseball)

▪ end (in American football)

▪ comfort

▪

Students are unwilling to step outside their comfort zone.

VERB + ZONE

▪ control, patrol

▪

The rebels control the southern border zone.

▪ create, declare sth, designate sth, establish

▪

The area has been declared a closed military zone.

▪ enforce

▪

Fighter planes are being sent to enforce the UN no-fly zone.

▪ violate

▪

An enemy plane was shot down after it violated the exclusion zone.

▪ cross into, enter

▪

We were crossing into a new time zone.

▪ leave

▪

Aid workers were advised to leave the danger zone.

▪ divide sth into

▪

Europe is divided into economic zones.

PREPOSITION

▪ in a/the zone, within a/the zone

▪

The plant grows only in the temperate zone.

▪

Companies within enterprise zones are given special help.

▪ into a/the zone

▪

We had accidentally strayed into the war zone.

▪ out of a/the zone

▪ zone between

▪

the neutral zone between the two countries