Usually means: Military mission involving aircraft deployment.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word sortie:

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  1. sortie: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sortie: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sortie: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sortie: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sortie: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sortie, sortie: Wordnik
  7. sortie: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Sortie, sortie: Wiktionary
  9. sortie: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sortie: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sortie: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sortie: Dictionary.com
  13. sortie: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Sortie (album), Sortie (disambiguation), Sortie (siege warfare), Sortie: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Sortie: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. sortie: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. sortie: Rhymezone
  18. Sortie, sortie (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. sortie: Free Dictionary
  20. sortie: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. sortie: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Sortie: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (military, also attributively and figuratively)
noun:  An attack made by troops from a besieged position; a sally.
noun:  (aviation) An operational flight carried out by a single military aircraft.
noun:  (by extension)
noun:  An act of venturing out to do a task, etc.
noun:  (figuratively)
noun:  An act of trying to enter a new field of activity.
noun:  (sports) An attacking move.
noun:  (astronautics) An operational flight carried out by a spacecraft involving a return to Earth.
noun:  (military) Synonym of sally port (“an entry to or opening into a fortification to enable a sally”)
noun:  (photography) A series of aerial photographs taken during the flight of an aircraft; (by extension) a photography session.
verb:  (intransitive) To carry out a sortie; to sally.
noun:  A surname.

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