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AIRWORTHINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does airworthiness mean?
• AIRWORTHINESS (noun)
The noun AIRWORTHINESS has 1 sense:
1. fitness to fly
Familiarity information: AIRWORTHINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fitness to fly
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Context example:
the plane received a certificate of airworthiness
Hypernyms ("airworthiness" is a kind of...):
soundness (a state or condition free from damage or decay)
Attribute:
airworthy ((of aircraft) fit to fly)
unairworthy (not fit to fly)
Derivation:
airworthy ((of aircraft) fit to fly)
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