airlift
Collocations
2VERB + AIRLIFT
chartered, need, planes
AIRLIFT + NOUN
employees
Definitions
noun
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
To transport (troops etc) in an airlift.
The mountaineer who fell down a crevasse had to be airlifted out.
My Pelicans are going to start airlifting armor and reinforcements into the city.
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
5The mountaineer who fell down a crevasse had to be airlifted out.
WiktionaryMy Pelicans are going to start airlifting armor and reinforcements into the city.
WiktionaryAnd that's when the airlift began – when the largest and most unlikely rescue in history brought food and hope to the people of Berlin.
Tatoeba · #3058778We need to airlift her.
Tatoeba · #6589071They chartered planes to airlift their employees.
Tatoeba · #11489644