on the ground prepositional phrase2 •In an area (location) of interest or active operations, versus outside that area (and especially, far away from it).You might feel differently about this policy if you were on the ground in a war zone. •In the daily life of the general public, or at least in that of some group of people who aren't out-of-touch elites.Evidently, senior management has no idea how things get done by those of us on the ground.
