: delivery of cargo, emergency supplies, or personnel by parachute from an airplane in flight
air-drop
transitive verb
Examples of airdrop in a Sentence
The group organized an airdrop of food for the refugees.
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In a post on X on Saturday, Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, noted a single truck can bring in far more aid than an airdrop, many of which land in military zones or in the sea.
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Aya Batrawy, NPR, 2 Aug. 2025
Macron and other Western leaders called for comprehensive humanitarian access beyond airdrops, which the French leader described as inadequate to alleviate famine risk.
—Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Aug. 2025
Israel also began allowing airdrops of food as of Friday.
—Jenny Goldsberry, The Washington Examiner, 27 July 2025
The scene around the airdrops can be equally abject.
—Ghada Abdulfattah, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2025
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Aya Batrawy, NPR, 2 Aug. 2025
Macron and other Western leaders called for comprehensive humanitarian access beyond airdrops, which the French leader described as inadequate to alleviate famine risk.
—Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Aug. 2025
Israel also began allowing airdrops of food as of Friday.
—Jenny Goldsberry, The Washington Examiner, 27 July 2025
The scene around the airdrops can be equally abject.
—Ghada Abdulfattah, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2025
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“Airdrop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/airdrop. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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airdrop
noun
air·drop
-ˌdräp 
: delivery of cargo, supplies, or people by parachute from an airplane
air-drop
verb
-ˌdräp
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