boatlift


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boat·lift

 (bōt′lĭft′)
n.
An unofficial system of transporting supplies and people, especially refugees, from one country to another by boats.


boat′lift′ v.
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boatlift

(ˈbəʊtˌlɪft)
n
an evacuation or rescue by boat
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boat•lift

(ˈboʊtˌlɪft)
n.
1. the act or process of transporting persons or cargo by ships or boats.
v.t.
2. to transport by boatlift.
[1980–85]
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He was eventually coerced into repudiating his beliefs and then allowed to leave Cuba in the 1980 Mariel boatlift. On December 7, 1990, debilitated by AIDS, he committed suicide in his Manhattan apartment, overdosing on sleeping pills.
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