airlift
21
4.7
- noun
- /ˈɛrˌlɪft/
:
puente aéreo
- The Israeli government organized an airlift to rescue Ethiopian Jews.
- airlift of food
- U.S. airlift
- Berlin airlift
And you're also not insured for like airlift?
- And you're also not insured for like airlift?
- I remember I flew over the first, I flew over on the one time the USG provided airlift for us to send aircraft to Iraq was the first time.
Examples
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Mission: To conduct an emergency airlift of food to famine-stricken Somalia and to refugees in Kenya.
Academic text (1996) -
On June 25, 1948, General Lucius Clay ordered an airlift of food and supplies.
Fiction book (1998) -
Medical care and airlift will be provided for all residents.
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So that's like the biggest military airlift in history in such a short time.
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Berlin children watch a U.S. plane bringing them food during the Berlin Airlift.
Fiction book (1998) -
The humanitarian airlift delivered crucial supplies to the people affected by the crisis.
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During the emergency, a swift airlift was organized to transport medical supplies to the remote village.
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The government arranged an airlift to evacuate citizens from the disaster-stricken area.
Synonyms
5
5.3
Transport of people or goods by air to places that are hard to reach
3
2.7
The movement of people or goods by plane
3
2.7
The movement of people or goods by plane
Compounds
1
5.5
A 1948–49 effort by Western countries to send food and fuel to West Berlin by plane
How Urgent
20
3.1
- Specialized
25
4.9
130
4.1
21
4.7
528
2.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Airlift comes from the two simple words air and lift; air means 'sky' and lift means 'to raise'. So imagine supplies being 'lifted' into the sky by planes or helicopters to reach places with no roads, and an airlift is the 'transportation by aircraft' of people or goods.