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airlift

UK/ˈɛə.lɪft/

airlift noun: the transportation of troops, civilians or supplies by air, especially in an emergency.

Noun

airlift (plural airlifts)

  1. The transportation of troops, civilians or supplies by air, especially in an emergency.
  2. Such a flight.
  3. A pipe that is used to suck up objects from the sea bed.

Verb

airlift (third-person singular simple present airlifts, present participle airlifting, simple past and past participle airlifted)

  1. (transitive) To transport (supplies, troops, etc) in an airlift.
    • The mountaineer who fell down a crevasse had to be airlifted out.
    • Emergency food and bottled water were airlifted into the earthquake zone.

airlift meaning in Tamil

airlift in Tamil

காற்று வழிச் செல்லல், வானூர்தி போன்றவை, வான்தூக்கு

Examples of airlift in a sentence

  • “A necessary evil” is Bosnia-Herzegovinian Defense Minister Jerko Doko’s blunt term for the United Nations’ hard-won airlift.
  • All 20 crew members were airlifted off the ship in a harrowing rescue by the Royal Canadian Air Force.
  • We are so far from a hospital that can treat children, serious medical emergencies have to be airlifted out.

All 11 example sentences with airlift

Forms of airlift

Noun
pluralairlifts
Verb
third-person singular presentairlifts
present participleairlifting
past participleairlifted
pastairlifted

Plural of airlift: airlifts

Origin of airlift

From air + lift; compare sealift.

Words formed from airlift

Questions about airlift

What does airlift mean?
Airlift means the transportation of troops, civilians or supplies by air, especially in an emergency.
What is airlift in Tamil?
Airlift in Tamil is காற்று வழிச் செல்லல், வானூர்தி போன்றவை, வான்தூக்கு. See Airlift meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is airlift?
Airlift can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce airlift?
Airlift is pronounced /ˈɛə.lɪft/ (UK).
What is the plural of airlift?
The plural of airlift is airlifts.

Words near airlift in the dictionary

  1. airlessness
  2. airletter
  3. airletters
  4. airlier
  5. airliest
  6. airlift
  7. airlifted
  8. airlifter
  9. airlifters
  10. airlifting
  11. airlifts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: airlift (page history and authors); airlift (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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