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air alert definition

air alert

  1. a state of readiness by air force units, in which aircraft are put into the air for immediate response to orders
  2. the signal for getting into such an alert
  3. an alerting, as of civilians, against an air attack

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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