firebase means an encampment designed to provide indirect artillery support to infantry troops operating beyond the normal range of fire support from their own base camps; a fire support base. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 90 out of 100.
firebase is pronounced /ˈfʌɪəbeɪs/.
Etymology
From fire + base.
noun
- An encampment designed to provide indirect artillery support to infantry troops operating beyond the normal range of fire support from their own base camps; a fire support base.“They had each set up a one-tank firebase, and become the center of a small community. Behind the sandbagged fort that each crew had built, a cluster of refugee huts and sprung up, and now, as the company drove by, these were the scenes of farewells.”