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on-air

on-air is the alternative form of on air.

Meaning of on air

Prepositional phrase

  1. Broadcasting or transmitting through the medium of radio or television.
    • Julie is on air now, presenting the weather forecast.
    Synonyms:
    on the air
    Antonyms:
    off air
  2. Being, or so as to be, broadcast or transmitted by radio or television.
    • Don't interrupt while the program is on air.
  3. (figuratively) Smoothly; gracefully.
  4. (figuratively) Happily.
  5. Won with a high card though capturing only small cards.
  6. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, air.

Questions about on-air

What is on-air the alternative form of?
On-air is the alternative form of on air.

Words near on-air in the dictionary

  1. on't
  2. on-
  3. on-again off-again
  4. on-again, off-again
  5. on-again-off-again
  6. on-air
  7. on-and-off
  8. on-base percentage
  9. on-base percentages
  10. on-base plus slugging
  11. on-beam

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Adapted from Wiktionary: on-air (page history and authors); on air (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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