Definition of airlift
: a system of transporting cargo or passengers by aircraft often to or from an otherwise inaccessible area
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Examples of airlift in a Sentence
an emergency airlift to deliver supplies to the famine victims
Recent Examples of airlift from the Web
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The mission will include two Chinook helicopters for airlift operations and four armed Griffon helicopters for escort purposes.
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Then, in the summer of 2015, the airlift suddenly escalated.
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In the decades after independence, the government partnered with Jewish groups to organize dramatic airlifts of Jews from troubled countries.
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Iran immediately took advantage and launched an airlift that continues to this day.
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The emergency airlift was supposed to supply Charlottesville with food for a week or two.
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Thankfully, The Guardian reported earlier today that an airlift started evacuating about 100 people per hour from Zermatt to Täsch, a nearby village.
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The parachute brigade is like a rescue team arriving to save the day, a Berlin airlift for the beleaguered soul.
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Their best hope of averting a crisis — of the legal, political, foreign policy, public relations and familial varieties — is hoping the weather report scuttles an airlift from the South Lawn.
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First Known Use of airlift
1943
AIRLIFT Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of airlift for English Language Learners
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: an occurrence in which people or things are carried to or from a place by airplanes during an emergency when other methods are not possible
AIRLIFT Defined for Kids
Definition of airlift for Students
airlifted;
airlifting
: to move people or cargo by aircraft usually to or from an area that cannot be reached otherwise
- Food was airlifted to the earthquake victims.
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