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AIRLIFT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)

Synonyms:

airlift; lift

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("airlift" is a kind of...):

conveyance; transfer; transferral; transport; transportation (the act of moving something from one location to another)

Instance hyponyms:

Berlin airlift (airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin)

Derivation:

airlift (fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means

Example:

Food is airlifted into Bosnia

Synonyms:

airlift; lift

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "airlift" is one way to...):

fly (transport by aeroplane)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

airlift (transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable))

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