Stop And Return If Led Astray Crossword Clue

We think the answer is "FIELD" which means:

noun
• • A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
• • A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
• • Somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected
• • A branch of knowledge
• • The space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
• • A particular kind of commercial enterprise
• • A particular environment or walk of life
• • A piece of land prepared for playing a game
• • Extensive tract of level open land
• • (mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1
• • A region in which active military operations are in progress
• • All of the horses in a particular horse race
• • All the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
• • A geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
• • (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
• • The area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
• • A place where planes take off and land
verb
• • Catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
• • Play as a fielder
• • Answer adequately or successfully
• • Select (a team or individual player) for a game

An example sentence would be:

• • "The children were playing in the field."
• • "She has a degree in the field of psychology."

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