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Verb: take the field
  1. Go on the playing field, of a football team
    "The home team took the field to thunderous applause"
     
  2. Go on a campaign; go off to war
    "The troops took the field against the enemy";
    - campaign

Derived forms: took the field, taking the field, takes the field, taken the field

Type of: come in, enter, get in, get into, go, go in, go into, locomote, move, move into, travel