AIRLIFT

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 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)

Sense 1

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; transport; 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)

Derivation:

airlift (fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means)

• AIRLIFT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they airlift    ... he / she / it airlifts   
Past simple: airlifted   
Past participle: airlifted   
-ing form: airlifting   

Sense 1

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

Derivation:

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