Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun airlift

1 sense of airlift

Sense 1
airlift, lift -- (transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable))
       => transportation, transport, transfer, transferral, conveyance -- (the act of moving something from one location to another)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb airlift

1 sense of airlift

Sense 1
airlift, lift -- (fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means; "Food is airlifted into Bosnia")
       => fly -- (transport by aeroplane; "We fly flowers from the Caribbean to North America")