AIRLIFT
Dictionary entry overview: What does airlift mean?
• AIRLIFT (noun)
The noun AIRLIFT has 1 sense:
1. transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)
Familiarity information: AIRLIFT used as a noun is very rare.
• AIRLIFT (verb)
The verb AIRLIFT has 1 sense:
1. fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means
Familiarity information: AIRLIFT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• AIRLIFT (noun)
Meaning:
Transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
airlift; lift
Hypernyms ("airlift" is a kind of...):
conveyance; transfer; transferral; 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)
• AIRLIFT (verb)
Meaning:
Fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
airlift; lift
Context example:
Food is airlifted into Bosnia
Hypernyms (to "airlift" is one way to...):
fly (transport by aeroplane)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
