English Explanatory Dictionary

boatlift

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The (often clandestine) transportation of a large number of people or amount of goods by boat, especially an exodus of people.
  2. Alternative form of boat lift (“mechanism used for raising and lowering boats on a canal vertically from one water level to another”).
verb
  1. To transport (a large exodus of people, etc.) by boat.

Word forms

boatlift boatlifts boatlifting boatlifted

Etymology

From boat + lift.

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