单词 | no-fly |
释义 | no-flyadj. 1. Military. Designating an area over which military (and sometimes civil) aircraft are forbidden to fly, esp. during a conflict; usually in no-fly zone. Also: designating a rule mandating such a zone. ΚΠ 1963 Marine Corps Gaz. Sept. 33/1 Capt Haight's favorite project is a triple-missile site built out of old generators, refrigerators, barbecue grills, and abandoned automobiles. Laugh if you want to, but shortly after it was unveiled helicopter pilots asked if the area was a no-fly zone. 1988 Aviation Week & Space Technol. (Nexis) 16 May 50 The area west of the buffer zone..is considered a ‘no-fly’ zone due to its proximity to the USSR. 1992 Time 28 Sept. 49/2 The US..should say explicitly that sanctions and no-fly rules will stay in force. 1994 Canad. Def. Q. Mar. 45/2 The goal of the study is to find ways of giving tactical commanders an alternative to guns or missiles to enforce a ‘no-fly’ zone, such as in Bosnia. 2000 Times 3 Aug. 4/5 RAF pilots have admitted that only good fortune has prevented British casualties during their many ‘dangerous missions’ enforcing the no-fly zone over southern Iraq. 2. Designating or relating to a prohibition on travel by commercial aircraft, imposed on a person or a category of people considered to be a security risk. Chiefly in no-fly list: a list of people subject to such a prohibition.Esp. with reference to measures introduced by the United States government in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. on 11 September 2001. ΚΠ 1994 Agence France Presse Newswire (Nexis) 24 Dec. (heading) BA taking ‘great risk’ in lifting no-fly ban on Rushdie. 2001 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 13 Oct. 6 A Glasgow-bound passenger jet was at the centre of a security scare when two passengers thought to be on a ‘no fly’ list were questioned by armed police. 2004 9/11 Comm. Rep. (National Comm. Terrorist Attacks U.S.) iii. 83 As of 9/11, the FAA's ‘no-fly’ list contained the names of just 12 terrorist suspects. 2009 Telegraph-Jrnl. (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 19 Mar. a9 The U.S. no-fly order against..an Ottawa telecommunications engineer..accused..of having links to al-Qaeda. 2015 Washington Post 8 Dec. a15 Senate Democrats want to change gun laws to preclude those on the no-fly list and others suspected of terrorist ties from being able to purchase firearms. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1963 |
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