sortie

IPA: sˈɔrti

(military, also attributively and figuratively)
An attack made by troops from a besieged position; a sally.
(aviation) An operational flight carried out by a single military aircraft.
(by extension)
An act of venturing out to do a task, etc.
(figuratively)
An act of trying to enter a new field of activity.
(sports) An attacking move.
(astronautics) An operational flight carried out by a spacecraft involving a return to Earth.
(military) Synonym of sally port (“an entry to or opening into a fortification to enable a sally”)
(photography) A series of aerial photographs taken during the flight of an aircraft; (by extension) a photography session.
A surname.

Examples of "sortie" in Sentences

For the military, the cost of a sortie is critical.
A sortie is a deployment or dispatch of one military unit.
For Goodrich, the sortie was her first humanitarian mission.
The object of the sortie was a vague idea to push forward, if possible, to Versailles.
Scrap the Constellation 'sortie' (Apollo redux) program and replace it with a dedicated lunar base program.
As for the sortie, which is to revictual Paris, by forcing the Prussian lines, it is simply absurd to talk of it.
The moment the rock was thought to be in a state of sufficient security, the party who composed what might be called the sortie, sallied forth on their anxious expedition.
Then the German general struck in with emphasis, 'I regret that I cannot do what you ask,' he said; 'but as to making a sortie, that is just as impossible as the defence of Sedan.
This plan, which came to be called a sortie, involved the maximum number of tanks, equipped with the Rhino device, that could be brought into position, allowing for the variation of the terrain.