jetliner

noun

jet·​lin·​er ˈjet-ˌlī-nər How to pronounce jetliner (audio)
: a jet-propelled airliner

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Many of my co-workers had previously worked at the Boeing aircraft company and reeled off rollicking facts about how during the steep, screaming plunge before a jetliner crash the passengers’ internal organs will actually begin to liquify. Chuck Palahniuk, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025 All passengers and crew members died when two 737 Max jetliners went down less than five months apart in 2018 and 2019 — a Lion Air flight that plunged into the sea off the coast of Indonesia and an Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed into a field after taking off from Addis Ababa. Jamie Stengle, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2025 Jennifer Buchanan | Via Reuters Boeing has won regulator approval to ramp up production of its best-selling 737 Max jetliners to 42 a month, a milestone for the manufacturer nearly two years after the Federal Aviation Administration capped its output after a midair near-catastrophe. Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025 So, the pilots need to be proficient at air-to-air refueling, a difficult task with a plane the size of a commercial jetliner like the E-3. Frederik Pleitgen, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for jetliner

Word History

First Known Use

1949, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of jetliner was in 1949

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“Jetliner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jetliner. Accessed 24 Nov. 2025.

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