单词	airlift
释义	airlift /ˈɛːlɪft / noun An act of transporting supplies by aircraft, typically in a blockade or other emergency: a massive airlift of food, blankets, and medical supplies... The USA provided assistance in the form of an emergency airlift of food and other essentials known as Operation Provide Relief. Apart from the usual sprains, strains, stings and bouts of homesickness, the medics were involved in organising the emergency airlift of a critically ill cadet. The air force provides U.S. military forces with worldwide strategic airlifts and tactical airlifts of men and materiel, effecting deliveries by both air landing and parachute drop. verb [with object] Transport (troops or supplies) by aircraft: helicopters were employed to airlift the troops out of danger... From here supplies were airlifted to soldiers deployed in the wars in the Balkans and in Afghanistan. Food and other supplies were airlifted by national helicopters to the workers. Their tanks, other vehicles and supplies will be airlifted in behind them. Rhymes chairlift, stairlift
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