noun
airspace
noun
1
The portion of sky above a country or region that falls under its legal control, especially for aviation purposes.
"The fighter jets were scrambled after an unidentified aircraft entered restricted airspace."
"Commercial flights had to reroute around the closed airspace."
How to Use Airspace
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishThe sky over a particular area, treated as something a country or authority controls and can restrict.
Common pairings
enter restricted airspace
control of airspace
violate someone's airspace
Word Forms
airspaces plural
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Etymology
From air + space, describing the sky as a controllable territory in the same way land or water can be.