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means A cleared, often unpaved runway built for planes to take off and land, with little or none of the infrastructure a full airport has.

from A straightforward compound: 'landing' (the act of bringing an aircraft down to earth, from Old English 'land') plus 'strip,' a long narrow piece of something, used since the early 1900s for a stretch of ground cleared for flight. As aviation grew in the 20th century, remote, military, and bush airfields were often just that — a strip of cleared land, no terminal required.