boatlift
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- noun
- /ˈboʊtˌlɪft/
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operación de evacuación en barco
- By the end of 1980, the year of the Mariel boatlift, the prisons in Dade County and Broward County were so overcrowded, their federal judges were ordering the prisons to just release prisoners.
- Mariel boatlift
- boatlift in 1980
Examples
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The successful boatlift brought hundreds of people to safety when all other means of transportation were cut off.
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And upwards of 50% of them, it was estimated, were criminals that had come over in the Mariel boatlift.
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The Mariel boatlift, just from that perspective, nearly bankrupted four counties in South Florida.
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Liberal views were further silenced in the wake of the Mariel Boatlift of 1980, which brought 126,000 new refugees to the United States.
Academic text (1998) -
30. The Rapid Action Brigades, begun in concert with the Mariel boatlift in 1980, stepped up their harassment of dissidents.
Academic text (1994) -
Vietnam was followed by the Mariel boatlift in 1980, when Fidel Castro opened his prisons and hospitals and released those who would emigrate to America.
Academic text (2000) -
Perhaps Pay's greatest act of protest was his refusal to leave Cuba during the Mariel Boatlift of 1980, when as many as 125,000 Cubans took advantage of a brief opening in immigration policy to escape Cuba for freedom in Florida.
Blog text (2) -
The city organized a large boatlift to evacuate residents from the flooding areas during the hurricane.
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During the emergency, volunteers coordinated a swift boatlift to transport those stranded by the rising waters.
Synonyms
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Transporting people and goods by boat or plane as a regular service
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Boatlift is made from boat and lift, and lift can mean 'to move people or goods quickly', like in airlift. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine many boats carrying people to safety, so a boatlift is an organized boat rescue or transport operation.