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Meanings of airlift in English

Russian
воздушный мост
Portuguese
transporte aéreo tático
Spanish
puente aéreo
Catalan
pont aeri

Military transportation of materiel and personnel using aircraft.

воздушный мост
Portuguese
transporte aéreo tático
Catalan
transport aeri

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

transporte aéreo tático
Synonyms
Examples for "military airlift"
Examples for "military airlift"
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The 163 refugees will be followed by a second military airlift to Montreal on Saturday.
Reuters
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AFGHANISTAN: British military airlifted six of its medical personnel out of Afghanistan yesterday after they fell ill to an apparently contagious infection of the stomach.
The Irish Times
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Dad was now a flight engineer aboard C-97 and C-124 cargo aircraft of MATS, the Military Air Transport Service.
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Usage of airlift in English
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The Berlin airlift crisis itself arose, of course, from very specific circumstances.
Reuters
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The North Sea has been the principal source of airlift weather trouble.
The new yorker
3
The United States continues to stand at the ready to provide airlift.
Reuters
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Better still, let Boyne airlift your equipment here, where there's better seeing-
Jem
5
SANDF sent in choppers on 9 December to airlift residents to safety.
The South African
6
The airlift provided a pool of people like that for Kenya's future.
The bridge: the life and rise of barack obama
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Absent a life-threatening emergency, airlift to Kathmandu occurs only below Camp One.
Bones on Ice
8
If she is, we'll have to airlift her to a bigger facility.
Twisted
9
The body said it would airlift medical supplies to Lebanon on Wednesday evening.
Radio NZ
10
The Syrian and Iraqi governments both authorised the airlift, the U.N. statement said.
Reuters
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The Syrian and Iraqi governments both authorized the airlift, the U.N. statement said.
Reuters
12
Military helicopters will airlift pipes into Kaikoura to help rebuild the sewerage system.
Radio NZ
13
Lockheed Martin said it looked forward to modernizing Israel's airlift fleet.
Reuters
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Riyadh would also airlift 300 tonnes of food and relief materials.
Reuters
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Securing these achievements required the Marshall plan, the Berlin airlift and much more.
The Guardian
16
Our airlift capacity, at least the organization, was almost left intact.
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Airlift through the time
Airlift across language varieties
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