Usually means: Transportation of goods by aircraft.
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  1. airlifts: Collins English Dictionary
  2. airlifts: Vocabulary.com
  3. Airlifts, airlifts: Wordnik
  4. airlifts: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. airlifts: Wiktionary
  6. airlifts: Dictionary.com
  7. airlifts: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. airlifts: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. airlifts: Merriam-Webster

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(Note: See airlift as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (airlift)

noun:  The transportation of troops, civilians or supplies by air, especially in an emergency.
noun:  Such a flight.
noun:  (archaeology) A pipe that is used to suck up objects from the sea bed.
verb:  (transitive) To transport (troops etc) in an airlift.
▸ Also see airlift


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