airlift

Plural: airlifts

Noun

• transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)
• The transportation of troops, civilians or supplies by air, especially in an emergency.
• Such a flight.
• A pipe that is used to suck up objects from the sea bed.

Verb

Verb Forms: airlifted, airlifting, airlifts

• To transport people or supplies by aircraft in an emergency.
• fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means
  • "Food is airlifted into Bosnia"
• To transport (troops etc) in an airlift.

Examples

• I need to AIRLIFT a vowel to this consonant-heavy corner of the board.
• The mountaineer who fell down a crevasse had to be airlifted out.

Synonyms

lift

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