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in flight

in flight prepositional phrase: flying, making a flight, as opposed to being on the ground.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Flying, making a flight, as opposed to being on the ground.

Questions about in flight

What does in flight mean?
In flight means flying, making a flight, as opposed to being on the ground.
What part of speech is in flight?
In flight is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in flight in the dictionary

  1. in flagrant delict
  2. in flagrante
  3. in flagrante delicto
  4. in flagranti delicto
  5. in flames
  6. in flight
  7. in floods
  8. in flower
  9. in flying colors
  10. in flying colours
  11. in focus

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