line of contact

English

Noun

line of contact (plural lines of contact)

1. The demarcation between two or more given armies, whether they are allied or belligerent.
   • 2021 December 10, Luke Harding, “‘Nobody wants to be Putin’s slave’: on the Ukraine frontline as tensions rise”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Both sides face off along a fixed 250-mile “border”, or line of contact, which snakes across Ukraine’s Donbas region.

Further reading

• line of contact on Wikipedia.Wikipedia