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BERLIN AIRLIFT

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Dictionary entry overview: What does Berlin airlift mean?

• BERLIN AIRLIFT (noun)
The noun BERLIN AIRLIFT has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: BERLIN AIRLIFT used as a noun is very rare.

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• BERLIN AIRLIFT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Instance hypernyms:

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

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