Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An aircraft runway without airport facilities.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun an airfield without normal airport facilities.

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  • noun An aircraft landing field, usually with only one runway and basic facilities.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an airfield without normal airport facilities

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Examples

  • More criticism of the way the U. S.-controlled airstrip is being administeredhere.

    Médecins Sans Frontières « Gerry Canavan 2010

  • To get near Everest, you must either walk for 10 days or fly to Lukla, a remote mountain airstrip where flights are notoriously unreliable.

    Motion Trek | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • “What you experienced at the airstrip is what I experienced at Jonestown,” Carter said almost 30 years after that horrible day.

    Peoples Temple: pain of cult massacre lives on 2008

  • Howland Island: airstrip constructed in 1937 for scheduled refueling stop on the round-the-world flight of Amelia EARHART and Fred NOONAN; the aviators left Lae, New Guinea, for Howland Island but were never seen again; the airstrip is no longer serviceable

    Airports 2008

  • The airstrip is useable by both untra-lights and airplanes, although the length of the strip would limit what you would be able to bring in (or take out).

    Airport In Chapala Or Ajijic ,For Small Planes? 2002

  • Ixtlán also houses the main airstrip used to fly over the Huichol and Cora mountains

    Wandering through Nayarit 1997

  • Ixtlán also houses the main airstrip used to fly over the Huichol and Cora mountains

    Wandering through Nayarit 1997

  • Ixtlán also houses the main airstrip used to fly over the Huichol and Cora mountains

    Wandering through Nayarit 1997

  • COLOMBO, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka's government troops have captured another airstrip from the Tamil Tiger rebels in the north on Friday, the military said.

    Top Stories - Google News 2009

  • London City Airport's single airstrip, which is short compared to airports like London's Heathrow and Gatwick, that airport has been closed.

    CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2009 2009

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