emplanev.
/ɪmˈpleɪn/, /ɛmˈpleɪn/, U.S. /ᵻmˈpleɪn/, /ɛmˈpleɪn/ transitive and intransitive. To put or go on board a plane; to transport or travel by plane.
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society > travel > air or space travel > transport by air > transport through the air [verb (intransitive)] > leave or board an aircraft
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society > travel > air or space travel > transport by air > transport through the air [verb (transitive)] > take on board or remove from plane
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1923 Westm. Gaz. 2 July 3/2 Two Vickers-Victoria machines arrived, and emplaned the distressed garrison.
1930 Air July 292 The Prime Minister and Miss Ishbel MacDonald emplaning for a week-end in Edinburgh.
1941 F. H. Joseph in M. Wheeler Britain at War 95 Group was first enplaned, then those passengers taken on.
1944 Cape Times 25 May Men of the Fifth Indian Division had no idea where they were going when they emplaned.
1966 New Statesman 14 Jan. 58/3 A popular radio actress..is emplaned to Paris in the early Sixties.
1977 S. J. Perelman Eastward Ha! vii. 95 I emplaned for Malaysia purged and refreshed.
2012 Buffalo (N.Y.) News (Nexis) 29 Jan. p27 In November alone..8,858 passengers boarded commercial flights at Niagara Falls, more than three times as many as the 2,837 who emplaned here in November 2010.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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