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What does DZ stand for?

Drop Zone


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Dizygotic
Dizzy
Doctor Zhivago (novel, movie)
Donau Zentrum (German: Danube Shopping Center)
Doppelzentner (unit of measure)
Doppelzimmer (German: Double Room)
Double-Zeta
Douzaine (French: dozen)
Dozen
Drizzle (weather)
Dropping Zone
Dyzygotic
Algeria (ISO Country code)
Desert Z Association
Deutsches Zentrum für Altersfragen (German: German Center for Gerontology)
Dienstzeitausgleich (German)
Dieter Zgraggen Arbeitssicherheit (German safety engineering company)
Druckerei Zu Altenburg (German: Altenburg Printing)
Dzaoudzi Airport (Mayotte, France)
Drop Zone Assembly Aid System

Samples in periodicals archive:
This allowed me to better deconflict inbound C-130s from other air traffic near the drop zone and prepare myself to receive the airdrop package.
As the death penalty for treason was not abolished until 1988, Blunt, named as a traitor by Margaret Thatcher nine years earlier, should, like Nazi propagandist William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), in 1946, have been designated his own drop zone on the gallows at Wandsworth prison.
Elsewhere Saturday, Toulouse moved provisionally a point clear of PSG and Lille into fourth spot to keep alive their own unlikely bid for glory as an Andre-Pierre Gignac's 19th goal of the campaign saw off Nantes, who are stuck in the drop zone which Caen exited thanks to a 2-1 success at Le Havre.
All of them spent around two weeks acclimatising to the high altitude, before jumping to a drop zone in Syangboche, a settlement 12,350ft above sea level.
All three were in freefall for nearly half a minute and then opened their canopies before landing at a flat drop zone.
Owners of both skydiving companies, Eugene Sky-divers and Wright Brothers Sky-diving, expressed interest then in trying to buy the drop zone land.
The size of the drop zone will typically be dictated by the weather, speed of the plane, or (most commonly) the skill of the skydiver.
For a less commercial center, Skydive Sedona offers tandem and AFF with a great drop zone as well as the great views.

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