airlift
IPA: ˈɛrɫɪft
noun
- The transportation of troops, civilians or supplies by air, especially in an emergency.
- Such a flight.
- (archaeology) A pipe that is used to suck up objects from the sea bed.
verb
- (transitive) To transport (troops etc) in an airlift.
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Examples of "airlift" in Sentences
- It is a large military airlift base.
- It was hardly the first major airlift.
- In 1997, it assumed an airlift mission.
- It will become an airlift wing in 2011.
- It reverted to an airlift mission in 1957.
- A helicopter appears to airlift the survivors.
- So the American airlift cannot have been a response to the Soviet airlift.
- Royal Navy engineers were also airlifted to the area to augment the Diligence.
- Airlift may have a direct strategic role, as in the successful Berlin Airlift.
- The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo will airlift nearly 5,000 crested toad tadpoles to Puerto Rico for release into the wild.
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