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red zone, n.
Brit. |ˈrɛd ˌzəʊn|, U.S. |ˈrɛd ˌzoʊn|
Forms: also with capital initials.
[‹ red adj. + zone n.]
1.
a. In France after the First World War (1914–18): a region devastated by war to a point where reconstruction is regarded as impossible or prohibitively expensive. Now hist.
1920N.Y. Times 26 Mar. 8/4 In certain devastated districts the villages had been so thoroughly pulverized and the soil so completely blasted that it seemed impossible to repopulate them... They were to be an example and a warning—the ‘Red Zone’. 1922Times 5 Aug. 8/6 Pozières, which was formerly placed in the ‘Red’ zone, is, after all, to be reconstructed. 1940D. W. Brogan France under Republic x. iv. 599 In what was to be called the ‘red zone’.., the soil had been so torn up by shell fire, poisoned by chemicals, gashed by trenches, that it was thought that the cost of restoring it to fertility would be greater than it was worth. 1993Geografiska Annaler (B.) 75 73/2 The desolate and controversial ‘red zone’ whose 116,800 ha were so devastated they seemed beyond hope of restoration.
b. Chiefly U.S. An area in which on-street parking is prohibited.
1923Decatur (Illinois) Rev. 19 Jan. 11/3 Peter Deloaux..was arrested for parking in the red zone. 1961N.Y. Times 29 Jan. 84/5 She got a ticket for parking in the red zone and was ordered to appear in court. 1989Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 4 Apr. (Metro section) ii. 2/1 Any officer who parks in the red zone outside a courthouse could receive a ticket as well as an appointment with his or her boss to discuss the violation. 2003Independent 22 July i. 1/7 The misdemeanour had nothing to do with prostitutes or lying under oath but with leaving his BMW in a ‘red zone’.
c. A region or area which is dangerous, at high risk of damage or destruction, or into which entry is forbidden; (in weakened use) an area in which a given problem is especially prevalent.
1942W. R. Deuel People under Hitler 9 The Germans along the Rhine were allowed to stay, but those in a Red Zone of presumably greater danger in the SaarPfalz had to go. 1965Times 4 Aug. 6/3 In the ‘red zone’ which stretches along the coast between Marseilles and Menton an average of some 4 per cent of the wooded area is devastated by fire each year. 1989Washington Post (Nexis) 20 Feb. a25 Harrison, who lives in ‘the red zone’—near one of the open-air markets where drug sales and drug murders have come to be a part of the scenery—doubts that the troops would do much good. 1992Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) (Nexis) 8 Nov. a1 If they enter the red zone for any purpose whatsoever, they violate their probation. 1997Guardian 30 June t8 The oil field is situated in a ‘red zone’ where one of Colombia's strongest guerrilla forces, the Castroite National Liberation Army, (ELN), has a historic presence. 2004New Yorker 29 Mar. 38/3, I am staying in the same hotel..in what is called the Green Zone. (Everything outside its reinforced walls—in others words, the rest of Iraq—is referred to as the Red Zone).
2. Polit. A region or area under Communist or left-wing control; an area in which Communists or socialists make up a high proportion of the population.
1931N.Y. Times 10 Mar. 9/1 More than 200 miles of both banks of the Yangtse River are firmly held by communists... The Red Zone extends from just above Sinti..to a point above Temple Hill. 1940D. W. Brogan France under Republic x. vi. 640 Even in the red zone round Paris, in the new Communist municipalities, most people were married in church. 1963J. Maclean tr. J. M. Gironella One Million Dead xvi. 216 The number of refugees from the Red zone into Nationalist Spain was growing by the day. 1993Guardian (Nexis) 23 Feb. 13 The town is in central Italy's ‘red zone’, where there is a strong workerist tradition and where the largest political party in many areas is the PDS (previously the Communist party).
3. On a gauge or dial: a red sector corresponding to conditions beyond safety or peak-performance limits. Also fig.
1960G. Maxwell Ring of Bright Water ii. x. 144 The supercharger screamed, dial needles moved with incredible rapidity towards red zones: I had a glimpse of the speedometer hovering at 145 m.p.h. 1989Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 4 Feb. iii. 1/4 So Murdock turns to steroids..to survive. He pops pills. He revs his body up to the red zone to compete. 1995Scotsman (Nexis) 5 May 2 Evening ozone readings edged into the red zone at 58 parts per billion. 2000A. E. Kelly & R. A. Lesh Handbk. Res. Design in Math. & Sci. Educ. xxiv. 716 When using an audio mixer, the volumes should be adjusted so that the needles break into the red zone only periodically. 2003Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 23 Nov. iv. 11/1 All the talk about house price bubbles is moving behind us now... House prices are not unsupportable, and we're not heading toward the red zone.
4. Amer. Football. The region of a football field between an opponent's 20-yard line and goal-line, in which the offensive team focuses directly on scoring touchdowns in contrast to advancing the ball downfield.
1972Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 20 Sept. 59/2 Wallace and Oregon flanker Bob Palm had simultaneous possession of the ball in the red zone. 1981Washington Post 4 Oct. d1 We found out that once we got to what we call the ‘red zone’, which is inside the opponent's 20, we were the worst in the league in coming away with points, especially touchdowns. 1994Time 3 Jan. 87/1 Pro football has become the 60-yd. game as conservative teams trudge..between the red zones. 1997B. Billick Developing Offensive Game Plan 55 An area many game plans don't adequately account for is the part of the field leading up to the Red Zone. 2007Sports Illustr. 5 Nov. 62 (box) UConn held the Bulls to 10 points on five trips into the red zone. |