AIRLIFT


Meaning of AIRLIFT in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be taken/rushed/airlifted to hospital British English , be taken/rushed/airlifted to the hospital American English

Three people were taken to hospital after a crash on the motorway.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

His first column was a paean to the ingenuity, resolve, and bravery represented by the massive Berlin airlift .

In mid-June 1948 Truman ordered the airlift .

Thanks to the airlifts, the average daily death rate now is 12.

The airlift had now stopped and people were being moved on to Myitkyina, hoping to get a plane there.

The first planes of this airlift arrived in Beletuen on the same day.

The increase is partly accounted for by the airlift of refugees from Kosovo.

The plan seems to be to use airlift escorted by fighter planes.

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