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air cover

noun

  1. the use of aircraft to protect ground or naval military operations.
  2. the protection given by such aircraft.


air cover

noun

  1. Also calledair support
    1. the use of aircraft to provide aerial protection for ground forces against enemy air attack
    2. the aircraft used in this
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Providing air cover, however, has become increasingly challenging in recent weeks.

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Eleven thousand aircraft would bomb preparation and give them air cover.

The question is whose air cover they will operate under and whose objectives they will be pursuing on the ground.

They had no air cover and their exposed columns were like a fish in a barrel.

If he gets his way, U.S. drones may soon be providing air cover to his sectarian armies in Mosul and Tikrit.

The Iraqis need the American presence, and the American training and air cover, but are too proud and timid to admit it.

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