open-field

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adjective

1

: of, relating to, or constituting a system of agriculture widely practised in medieval Europe and based upon dividing the arable land into unenclosed strips usually subject to a 3-year rotation and upon distributing it among different cultivators

2

of a football player : notably capable of gaining yardage in a broken field

an open-field runner

open field

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noun

1

: broken field

2

: an unhampered chance

given an open field to experiment

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