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Troops vs Dropzone - What's the difference?

troops | dropzone |

As nouns the difference between troops and dropzone

is that troops is while dropzone is the location at which troops or supplies are dropped, usually by parachute.

As a verb troops

is (troop).

troops

English

Noun

(head)
  • military personnel in uniform
    • There are 10,000 troops in Iraq.

    Synonyms

    * soldiers

    Verb

    (head)
  • (troop)

    • Statistics

    *

    dropzone

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The location at which troops or supplies are dropped, usually by parachute.
  • * 1979 , Michael Hickey, Out of the Sky: A History of Airborne Warfare
    • ...he and his men were dropped inaccurately and came down over a mile from their appointed dropzone .
  • * 1998 , Stephen R Taaffe, MacArthur's Jungle War: The 1944 New Guinea Campaign
    • Hand-to-hand fighting ensued as Americans and Japanese struggled for possession of the AAF dropzones that supplied the Southern Force with rations...
  • * 2003 , Kenneth J Conboy, Kopassus: Inside Indonesia's Special Forces
    • Dropzones east of the town were quickly ruled out because of the rugged high ground in between, ruining the element of surprise...