Usually means: Transporting goods or people by air.
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  1. airlift: Merriam-Webster
  2. airlift: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. airlift: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. airlift: Collins English Dictionary
  5. airlift: Vocabulary.com
  6. Airlift, airlift: Wordnik
  7. airlift: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. airlift: Wiktionary
  9. airlift: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. airlift: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. airlift: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. airlift: Dictionary.com
  13. airlift: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Airlift (Pakistani company), Airlift (disambiguation), Airlift (dredging device), Airlift (film), Airlift: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. airlift: Rhymezone
  16. airlift: FreeDictionary.org
  17. airlift: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. airlift: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. airlift: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  20. airlift: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  21. airlift: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

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  1. Airlift (logistics), Airlift (military), airlift: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Airlift: Underwater Archaeology Glossary

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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.

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