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The act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft
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embarkment
Word definitions for embarkment in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. embarkation; the act of set out
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Embarkation (sometimes embarcation or embarkment ) is the process of loading a passenger ship or an airplane with passengers or military personnel, related to and overlapping with individual boarding on aircraft and ships.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Embarkment \Em*bark"ment\, n. [Cf. F. embarquement.] Embarkation. [R.] --Middleton.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft [syn: boarding , embarkation ] [ant: debarkation ]
Usage examples of embarkment.
At a time when everyone else despaired of saving stores, cannon, provisions, or property of any kind, and a privateer was moored across the mole-head to prevent all boats from passing, he sent word to the committee, that if the slightest opposition were made to the embarkment and removal of British property, he would batter the town down.