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Unconventional delivery of supplies
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airdrop
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AirDrop is an ad-hoc service in Apple Inc. 's OS X and iOS operating systems, introduced in Mac OS X Lion (OS X 10.7) and iOS 7 , which enables the transfer of files among supported Macintosh computers and iOS devices without using mail or a mass storage ...
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n. delivery of supplies or equipment or personnel by droppng them by parachute from an aircraft; "until then, front line troops will be supplied by airdrop" [also: airdropping , airdropped ]
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n. The act of delivering goods or personnel by dropping them from an aircraft by parachute. vb. To delivery goods or personnel by dropping them from an aircraft by parachute.
Usage examples of airdrop.
Designed to airdrop supplies to troops in the field, the pallets would make perfect bottoms.
Naturally, predictably, the Canadian airdrops began in Estonia, Byelorussia, Azerbaijan.
Pakistan had twelve nuclear-tipped missiles and a single airdropped bomb.
The first day there'll be humanitarian airdrops, all of them in the south, C-17s.
The airdrops would help a lot of people stay alive, but would do nothing to address the causes of the crisis.
The major problem was that all re-supply efforts had to be accomplished through the use of airdrops that had to take a dangerous route out of Israel, risking GIR interception.
They prepared the landing facilities at the nearby airfield for the 11th Airborne to make one of the major airdrops of the Pacific campaign.