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noun
A geographical frontier capable of being occupied and defended in a strategic manner, rather than haphazardly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
The term was used by Lord Beaconsfield in 1878 in speaking of the rectification of the boundaries between India and Afghanistan.
