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Airlift
 airlift
mil. abbr. alft
| Tanker
 tanker
mil. abbr. tncr
| Association
 Association
abbr. Asn
 association
abbr. assoc; ass
abbr. textile assocn.
footb. brit. association football
law abbr. assn.
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airlift ['eə'lɪft] n
mil., abbr. alft
mil., logist. Transport by air of a non-tactical nature. (FRA); Operations by civil or military transport aviation to deliver personnel and materiel to distant theatres of operations to reinforce existing force groupings, create new ones and supply or evacuate encircled isolated force groupings or sectors. For every airlift operation, an air transport force grouping is created and one or more air routes are designated. (UKR/NATO)