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airline definition

☆ air·line (-līn′)

noun

  1. the shortest distance between two points on the earth's surface; great-circle route between two places; beeline
    also air line
  2. a system or company for moving freight and passengers by aircraft
  3. a route for travel by air

adjective

of or on an airline airline personnel

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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